The French get their Obama moment when the president goes private

PARIS — People gawked and cameras clicked as the Obamas cut a wide figure through the French capital even while confined to a presidential motorcade. It was more personal for the few kept not so distant — the restaurant owner who “saw God,” the chauffeur reveling in a “magnificent mission.”

With plans hush-hush, expectation mounts ahead of the Obamas’ weekend in Paris

PARIS — Not since the Kennedy era has an American first lady — and in tow, her presidential husband — been so eagerly awaited in Paris.