There's a little oo-la-la in our future and his name is Nicolas Sarkozy, aka the president of France. The Frenchman rumored to actually like America, Elvis Presley and hot dogs will be in town for 48 hours worth of cordial tete-a-tetes with the White House and Congress.

There hasn't been a more charming French guy on these shores since Pepe Le Pew. Or Maurice Chevalier, anyway.

"He's so very attractive, so very charismatic. And he really likes the United States and the American people. I am counting on him to fix the relationship between France and the U.S., and I am very confident he will do just that," said Anais de Viel Castel, associate publisher of Washington Life magazine, which chronicles the feasts and fetes of local socialites.

"Here's a guy who stood up and walked out of a major CBS interview when he got offended. I think that impressed a lot of Americans," said Tyler Gray, senior editor of Radar magazine.