President's new wife pleases the French

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PARIS, June 8 (AFP): More than two-thirds of the French feel good about their new first lady, model-turned-singer Carla Bruni, and a majority feel her music career is "compatible" with her role as the president's wife, according to a new poll to appear on Sunday.

On the downside, 35 percent are not smitten with the 40-year-old spouse of President Nicolas Sarkozy and 42 percent feel she should definitely drop her music career while he is in office, said the IFOP poll to appear in the weekly Journal du Dimanche.

Of those polled, 64 percent felt Bruni, whose picture has been plastered over the French media since she and Sarkozy married in February after a three-month romance, "represented France well abroad."

Sixty percent felt she was "renewing the role of the French First Lady", while over half, 52 percent, felt she was a positive influence on the president-whose own confidence rating fell to 35 percent late last month.