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French first lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy gave birth to a daughter in a Paris clinic.

20 October,2011 06:15 am

French President Nicolas Sarkozys supermodel wife Carla Bruni-Sarkozy gave birth to a daughter Wednesday, a source in the first ladys inner circle confirmed.For the moment we dont know the little girls name, the source said, as the worlds media gathered near the La Muette clinic in Paris and Sarkozy returned from talks on the future of the eurozone in Frankfurt.The girl is the French first couples first baby since their marriage in 2008, although Bruni has one 10-year-old son from a previous relationship and thrice-married Sarkozy has three aged 14 to 26.Sarkozy had earlier in the day visited his wife in the Paris clinic for half-an-hour, but was forced to jet off to Germany for crisis talks on the eurozone sovereign debt crisis before the birth itself.He left Frankfurt just before the birth was announced, after talks with Chancellor Angela Merkel, IMF director Christine Lagarde and the current and next heads of the European Central Bank Jean-Claude Trichet and Mario Draghi.Sarkozys Elysee Palace office has said it will not make any official announcement on what it considers a private family matter, but the birth of a daughter was widely reported in French media outlets.