people are already starting to talk about leaving france the way they did when francois mitterand was first elected president. this is a guy who is anti-rich. he doesn't own his own apartment. he probably made no more than $100,000 a year in 2010 in income. he has actually said, "i don't like the rich." i has also said that, you know, every country has a soul. the soul of france is equality. he is really dedicated equalizing the wealth base in france. i mean this is quite revolutionary after so many years of rightist rule. and he's got a lot of different things to balance. he doesn't even have his cabinet in yet. we'll have to see whether he goes the route of naming someone like martino bries his prime minister who is very much to the left who talks about militants and combat, who brought in the 35-hour week. >> brown: okay. >> which has wreaked havoc with the workplace. >> brown: you're saying the bond market is ruling and politics aside? >> i don't care about the bochbd market personally. in the end i care about that we as a society, no matter where we live, we have to make sure tha

francois mitterand had a wife and mistress, fathered children with both.ficial and a cop aide to marry their girlfriends for protocol. but it seems times may have changed. >> translator: i think the french public wants a revolution in opinion. a lot of couples in france live together. a lot of french families are step families. the couple are at the head of the step family. >> reporter: france's first couple may never feel the need to marry, but then again, they haven't ruled it out. >> i can't imagine that happening in the united states. the man would have to convert to something like catholicism and then go on an apology tour and say how sorry he was. >> culturally things are very different in france. you do more or less what suits you. you can have a civil union or you can get married. essentially there's a lot more flexibility. and voters don't expect necessarily their elected officials to abide by a certain very set in stone set of rules, as you can see there. so we'll see if they end up getting married. >> and if she stays a journalist because i don'