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$our note over Bruni

Being first lady of France has its privileges.

Supermodel-turned-singer Carla Bruni-Sarkozy’s flagging musical career is getting a lift from the French treasury — which is buying thousands of her critically panned CDs to be given away in an international campaign.

The CDs are being packaged with wine and cheese vouchers and corkscrews, ostensibly to increase French food and drink sales.

A skeptic in French Elle magazine asked if the wine was to help listeners forget Bruni-Sarkozy’s music. Leonard Greene