Francois Hollande has threatened to take legal action against a French magazine which claims he is having an affair with an actress.<br /><br />A source in the French president’s office says he feels his privacy has been breached and he’s studying what action to take. <br /><br />Closer, the weekly tabloid magazine in question, claims Hollande regularly rides pillion on a scooter driven by his bodyguard to visit a Paris apartment block to see actress Julie Gayet. It has printed extensive details of their alleged comings and goings.<br /><br />There has been no comment from Gayet’s lawyers. She filed a complaint for breach of privacy last March after rumours of an affair became public. <br /><br />Hollande, who came to power in 2012, is in a long-time relationship with ex-journalist Valerie Trierweiler, who has assumed the functions of France’s first lady.<br /><br />Polls suggest he is the most unpopular president in France’s modern history largely because of his failure to turn around the weak economy,
