Francia - Inglese

France: Romantic, Glamorous, Litigious

[NYT - Europe]

President Nicolas Sarkozy and his wife, Carla Bruni, won a lawsuit against Ryanair, the European low-cost airline, for the unauthorized use of their photograph in an ad. A judge in Paris ordered the airline to pay Mr. Sarkozy one euro in damages, the sum he had asked for. Ms. Bruni, a former model, was awarded 60,000 euros, about $88,000. She had sought 500,000 euros, or $732,000, what she said she would expect to earn for appearing in an ad. The couple filed the suit against the airline after the ad appeared in the newspaper Le Parisien last week, just days before they married on Saturday. A cartoon bubble above Ms. Bruni read: “With Ryanair, my whole family can come to my wedding.”.