The French have a long tradition of respecting the privacy of their politicians’ personal lives, and French public opinion is more broad-minded than in the United States, where an unwed mother of four would have no chance of being nominated for the presidency by a major party. Indeed, last month, Randall Tobias, the top foreign aid adviser in the US State Department, resigned after acknowledging that he had used an escort service described as providing “high-end erotic fantasy” – although Tobias said he only had a massage.
法国人具有尊重政治人物个人生活隐私的悠久传统，而法国的舆论也要比美国的更为宽宏大量。在美国，一个没有结婚的四个孩子的母亲是没有机会被提名成为一个主要政党总统候选人的。实际上在上个月，美国国务院最高外国援助顾问脱拜尔斯在承认他使用了据称是提供“性爱幻想”的陪伴服务后辞职，尽管他说他只是接受了按摩。