Former French first lady weds PR executive

PARIS (Reuters) - The ex-wife of French President Nicolas Sarkozy has wed a public relations executive in a chic ceremony that the French media poked fun at on Monday.

Cecilia Ciganer-Albeniz, 50, wed Richard Attias, 48, on Sunday, less than two months after Sarkozy wed singer and former model Carla Bruni in Paris.

"Three marriages and a year of erring," was the headline in France's Liberation newspaper.

"Knowing perfectly well that this is information which interests no one, let's remark that this weekend in New York, Cecilia Isabel Ciganer-Albeniz married Richard Attias," the opening paragraph read on a two-page spread in the left-leaning paper.

Le Figaro said the wedding took place in the elegant Rainbow Room of the Rockefeller Center and that the 150 guests had been asked to come without cameras or portable phones.

Ciganer-Albeniz left Paris with Attias on Tuesday for a full schedule of wedding events, starting with a party at his home in Greenwich, Connecticut, on Friday.

The couple and many of their guests dined out in Manhattan on Saturday and took in the hit Broadway musical "Mamma Mia", which is set to the music of the pop group Abba.

It was Cecilia's third marriage.

Sarkozy was the mayor of the affluent Paris suburb Neuilly and in 1984 he performed the marriage between her and television presenter Jacques Martin, with whom she has two daughters.