Bloomberg reports that French President Nicolas Sarkozy is starting to lose favour with the French public in light of his recent public love life. Sarkozy’s approval rate is at an all time low since he took office.

France’s politicians, including former presidents Jacques Chirac and Francois Mitterrand, traditionally have been discreet about such matters. Since Sarkozy and his second wife divorced in October, he has traveled openly with Bruni to exotic locales, even as polls showed rising public concern about the economy and accelerating inflation.

“Nicolas Sarkozy in his Ray-Ban aviator sunglasses, vacationing while the French have trouble going on holiday and have cut back on their Christmas spending, doesn’t come across well,” said Laurent Dubois, a political science professor at Sorbonne University in Paris. “It’s taken as arrogance.”