In today’s #WorldatFive 🌎: When the self-styled king of the paparazzi arrived at the French Riviera the week before last, he was not on the trail of a debutante actress. He was after the rising star of the far-right. thetimes.co.uk/article/scanda…
Rostain was in position when Zemmour, in his white towelling robe, and Sarah Knafo emerged from a path to the beach at La Seyne-sur-Mer. “I knew they were going to the beach,” Rostain said on the phone last week, without specifying how. “I took a big telephoto lens.”
It sparked a media frenzy but what obsessed le tout Paris was not any damage that revelations of an alleged dalliance with a much younger woman might inflict on Zemmour, it was the suggestion that he may have staged the whole exposé himself. 
Appearing in swimming trunks on the cover of Paris Match — with or without a companion — has been a French political rite of passage for decades, marking the launch of many a French presidential campaign.
“Being a seducer is almost a requirement for a politician,” Sylvie Brunel, the wife of a former minister who had abandoned her for a younger woman she described as a “walking sexual object”, said years ago. “Virility is regarded as essential for governing France.”
Read more in today's #WorldatFive: thetimes.co.uk/article/scanda…
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