French President Francois Hollande visits First Lady Valerie Trierweiler in hospital

September 3, 2013 file photo showing French President Francois Hollande and his partner Valerie Trierweiler at the Elysee presidential palace in Paris.

Paris:  French President Francois Hollande has paid his first visit to his official partner Valerie Trierweiler since she was hospitalised in the wake of revelations he was having an affair, his office said on Friday.

Hollande visited Trierweiler at a Paris hospital on Thursday evening, six days after she was admitted, a spokesman told AFP.