Former [French Foreign Minister Roland Dumas's] lover Christine Deviers-Joncour (L) arrives at court in Paris, January 22, 2001 for the opening of the trial for the misappropriation of company funds in a corruption scandal that electrified France's political elite. [Dumas] who stands trial along with Deviers-Joncour and others, has denied charges that he helped lover-turned-foe Christine Deviers-Joncour get a job with the previously state-owned Elf-Aquitaine company and the benefited from the fortune that the petroleum giant showered on her. At right is her lawyer Sophie Bottai.