Nicolas Sarkozy

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French President Nicolas Sarkozy (center left) and Chief of Staff Adm. Edouard Guillaud (center right) ride in the command car amid French Republican Horse Guards during the annual Bastille Day military parade on the Avenue des Champs-Elysees in Paris on Wednesday, July 14, 2010. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)

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With Cameroonian first lady Chantal Biya (left) looking on, French President Nicolas Sarkozy kisses the hand of his wife, Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, during the annual Bastille Day military parade in Paris on Wednesday, July 14, 2010. (AP Photo/Eric Feferberg, Pool)

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French President Nicolas Sarkozy (left) walks toward a soldier from the Central African Republic during the annual Bastille Day military parade in Paris on Wednesday, July 14, 2010. France invited former African colonies celebrating five decades of independence to take part in the parade. Mr. Sarkozy has defended himself from critics who asked whether the invitation stemmed from nostalgia for the colonial era. (AP Photo/Eric Feferberg, Pool)

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French President Nicolas Sarkozy, left, his wife Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, second right, and Britain's Prince Charles, right, look at photographs of French President Charles De Gaulle during a visit to London headquarters of the Free French, the fighters led by de Gaulle, who rejected their country's surrender to Nazi Germany, on Friday June 18, 2010. Mr. Sarkozy marked the 70th anniversary of de Gaulle's defiant World War II broadcast from London on Friday, visiting the studio where the leader urged his compatriots to resist the German occupation. (AP Photo/Leon Neal, Pool)

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German Chancellor Angela Merkel (left) and French President Nicolas Sarkozy arrive Monday at a news conference during a meeting at the chancellery in Berlin to prepare for a European Union summit later this week, amid speculation of a rift in German-French views on economic policy. Merkel welcomed Sarkozy to discuss a joint strategy on how to curb the debt crisis that has dragged down the common European currency and rattled economies across the continent. (Associated Press)

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President Obama, followed by British Prime Minister Gordon Brown (center) and French President Nicolas Sarkozy, arrive Friday to make a statement on Iran's nuclear facility during the G-20 Summit in Pittsburgh. (Associated Press)