Francois Hollande and Valerie Trierweiler are living “separate lives”

France’s President Francois Hollande and his partner Valerie Trierweiler are living “separate lives” and could even announce their break-up over summer, GALA Magazine has revealed.

The prediction comes after Valerie Trierweiler, the partner of Francois Hollande, was attacked for sending a Twitter message supporting a rival of Segolene Royale, the mother of his four children, in parliamentary elections last month.

The controversial Twitter message was posted in June, less than a month after Francois Hollande was elected to president, causing a national outcry in France.

Now GALA Magazine has revealed that friends of the presidential couple believe they could now be set to end their seven-year relationship.

The magazine said: “Relations between them have become so tense that there is talk of them splitting up.

“These days they hardly see each other and the President is said to be thinking about leaving his partner, announcing the news over the summer before the government returns to work in the autumn.”

Francois Hollande was said to be “furious” at his girlfriend’s online antics and Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault broke with protocol and told Valerie Trierweiler she should “know her place”.

Thomas Hollande, the eldest son of President Hollande and Segolene Royale, also scorned Valerie Trierweiler, confirming that he never wanted to see her again after she destroyed president’s “Mr. Normal” image.

Valerie Trierweiler, dubbed the Rottweiler, was initially defiant but apologized for her tweet two weeks after it was sent in June.

One friend of the First Lady told Le Parisien newspaper: “She knows she made a mistake.

“She did not appreciate the consequences that her tweet would have on the authority of the head of state, on the socialist party, on her children and those of Francois Hollande.”

Valerie Trierweiler also told French TV that: “I will count to 10 before tweeting.”

Francois Hollande has already publicly expressed his disapproval of the row between his current and former lovers during a televised Bastille Day address to the nation on July 14.

The President said: “I am for a clear distinction between public and private life.

“I believe private matters should be regulated in private and I have asked those close to me to respect this.”

President Francois Hollande also left the divorced mother-of-three at home in Paris when he travelled to London for meetings with both Prime Minister David Cameron and the Queen earlier this month.

Francois Hollande and Segolene Royal lived together for 28 years before the President left her for Valerie Trierweiler in 2005.

News magazine L’Express wrote of Valerie Trierweiler last month: “For her, Segolene Royal remains the object of profound and irrational jealousy that complicates political relations.

“It is almost impossible to even speak about the woman in front of her, even from a purely political angle.

“It’s stronger than she is.”