The media is now in post first round overdrive with analysis and interpretation of Sunday's results and speculation over the outcome in a fortnight's time.
As such, one of the invited guests on Monday morning's edition of La Matinale on Canal + was none other than Rachida Dati.
Rachida Dati (screenshot from Canal + La Matinale)You remember her - the woman brought in to Sarkozy's government as justice minister at a time when diversity - both ethnic and gender - was his buzzword, and then when the honeymoon was long over, dispatched to the country's version of sending someone to Coventry (apologies to that UK city, but it is an expression) and made to stand in the European elections.
Having "served her time" without creating too much of a media stir in France, Dati was brought back into the fold as Sarkozy's official campaigning got underway.
And in spite of herself perhaps she has been something of a non-contraversial star in so far as she didn't draw too much attention to herself for off-the-cuff and misplaced remarks.
Well, let's face it, Sarkozy had Nadine Morano for that.
But the day after the night before - and things look to have gone a little wrong for Dati - at least in the vestimentary department.
On Monday she appeared on La Matinale, the breakfast show on Canal +, to put the inevitable positive spin on Sunday's results.
And as she was talking, answering questions put to her by journalist Caroline Roux, the camera kept showing her from the back.
Why?
Well emblazoned on the back of her top was a pattern which looked for all the world to be that of a giant cannabis plant leaf.
La Matinale's presenter, Maïtena Biraben, couldn't resist asking Dati about it at the end of the interview and the least that can be said is that the former justice minister floundered.
"There have been several messages on our Facebook page wondering whether your top is smoking," said Biraben to a non-plussed Dati.
"So what is the design on the back of your top - Cannabis?"
Looking rather uncomfortable and probably realising how this could play out later in the day, Dati denied that it was a cannabis plant leaf.
"Hemp?" suggested Biraben with a smile.
"No, not that either," replied Dati. "It's something else."
"Eucalyptus," said Biraben in a pretend Euruka! moment.
"Exactly," affirmed Dati, followed by some insincere laughter.
"But you can smoke eucalyptus too," chirped Biraben
"Yes...er...no, perhaps but eucalyptus makes you calmer," was Dati's final response...er - this obviously wasn't going the way she had planned.
Neither Biraben nor the viewers were prepared to leave it there though and later in the programme the production team provided a picture of a cannabis plant leaf side by side to one of the pattern on the back of Dati's top.
Draw your own conclusions but as one viewer wrote, "If it's not cannabis, what have I been smoking for the past 20 years?"
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I really don't like this woman, and certainly not keen to see her getting public responsibilities after her poor performance as justice minister.
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