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Aug 2, 2007 12:39 pm US/Eastern

French President To Visit Lake Winnipesaukee

CONCORD, N.H. (WBZ) ― French President Nicolas Sarkozy is vacationing in New Hampshire.

Sarkozy is expected to arrive in Wolfeboro this weekend and stay two weeks in the resort community on Lake Winnipesaukee.

Sarkozy will join a list of current and past vacationers that includes Drew Barrymore, Taiwan's Madame Chiang Kai-shek and Mitt Romney in Wolfeboro, which calls itself the country's oldest summer resort community. The picturesque town is on Lake Winnipesaukee, about two hours north of Boston.

WBZ has learnred Sarkozy will stay at the 22,000 square-foot home owned by Mike Appe, a former Microsoft executive.

Rumors of a Sarkozy visit have circulated for weeks.

"We're going to have to get our French flags out, I guess," Town Manager David Owen said when asked about them last month.

Wolfeboro is familiar with celebrities and international guests. Monaco's Prince Rainier and Princess Grace and author Kurt Vonnegut vacationed here. Romney, the former Massachusetts governor and current presidential hopeful, has an 11-acre estate valued at more than $10 million on the shore of the lake.

Wolfeboro does its best to maintain a quaint image. A trolley named Molly takes visitors from one end of Main Street to the other, and the town has numerous plush summer homes.

(© 2007 CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. The Associated Press contributed to this report.)

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