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Sarkozy drops karaoke to spend time on his stamps
Peter Allen in Paris24 Feb 2009
NICOLAS SARKOZY has become an obsessive stamp collector - and has his own stamp society in his palace, it emerged today.
Mr Sarkozy, 54, sponsors the Elysée Philatelist Club, named after the Paris palace where he lives with wife Carla Bruni - who says she is delighted he has given up "less appropriate" pastimes, including karaoke singing.
Pride of place in his stamp collection is a set issued by the Post Office in 2004 to celebrate the Entente Cordiale, a gift from the Queen when the Sarkozys stayed at Windsor Castle last year.
"Being French president is a perfect job for a keen philatelist," said an Elysée Philatelist Club source.
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email is killing the postage stamp. Would you believe it Sarko a philatilist. A cup of cocoa and his stamp album will keep him amused for hours. The European Constitution can be written on the back of a postage stamp.
- Dhanraj, basildon, 24/02/2009 21:37
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