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White House staff are tip-toeing around revelations that the French president has a mistress as they face the awkward question of just who will be his plus one at a state dinner next month. Francois Hollande, 59, faced the world's media for the first time on Tuesday after it was reported that he had been sneaking to a Paris apartment to meet up with 41-year-old actress Julie Gayet - unbeknown to his partner and France's de facto first lady Valerie Trierweiler.