The bride wore white and looked "ravishing, as usual," said Paris Mayor Francois Lebel, who performed the ceremony in the presence of friends and family, the BBC reported.

Lebel called the ceremony a historic moment because it was the first time a French president married while in office.

Bruni, 40, a former model turned pop singer, and Sarkozy, 53, reportedly met late last year just several weeks after he divorced his second wife, Cecilia, Sky News in Britain reported.

Bruni, whose former boyfriends include Mick Jagger and Eric Clapton, has a son from a former relationship. Sarkozy has a son from his marriage to Cecilia and two sons from his first marriage to Marie-Dominique Culioli.