NAMES & FACES

Sarkozy's Ex to Remarry

With French heads still spinning from President Nicolas Sarkozy's courtship and Feb. 2 marriage to model Carla Bruni, Sarkozy's ex-wife, Cecilia, is set for a whirlwind remarriage of her own.

France's former first lady, 50, will wed longtime lover Richard Attias, 48, in a private ceremony in New York on March 22, French magazine Point de Vue reports. According to the New York Post, fashion house Versace will dress the couple, and a large reception is planned for the following day.

Cecilia Sarkozy made headlines in 2005 when she left her husband to live with Attias, a Moroccan-born PR executive. After returning to her husband in early 2006 and living with him in the ¿lys¿e Palace after his election win, the couple divorced in October after 11 years of marriage. Cecilia then reunited with Attias in New York; last week, they were seen house-hunting, the Post reports.

Secondhand Stories

Stavros Dimas, EU environment commissioner, stopped in Washington this week to talk global warming, biodiversity and illegal logging with Bush administration officials. The Post's Juliet Eilperin reports that Dimas left D.C. with one regret: He had no time to browse Washington's secondhand bookstores.

"There was a time when I knew all the secondhand bookstores in the area," Dimas told reporters during a press breakfast yesterday. "I know there is a Second Story bookstore on P Street, no?" (Yes, there certainly is -- at 20th and P in Dupont Circle.)

Dimas, who hails from Greece and worked at the World Bank during the 1970s, said he's always on the lookout for good books on 19th-century Greek history. "I've gotten some excellent bargains here," he noted. "I've gotten some very good books that are worth 10 to 20 times more in Europe."

Trudeau Taking 'Doonesbury' Break

"Doonesbury" creator Garry Trudeau says he's going to take 12 weeks off from producing his Pulitzer Prize-winning comic strip. Trudeau wants to "work on other projects, travel and regenerate a few creative cells," said Lee Salem, president of Universal Press Syndicate. The break will be March 23 to June 16, and Trudeau will pick "Doonesbury" substitute strips to run during the time off.

Tony Blair's Going to Yale

Oxford grad Tony Blair is Ivy League-bound. The former British prime minister has been appointed to a year-long fellowship at Yale University, the school announced yesterday.

Working with deans in Yale's management and divinity schools, Blair will lead a seminar on issues of faith and globalization. The roster of those who previously held the position -- the Howland Distinguished Fellowship -- includes journalist Alistair Cooke and stateswoman Indira Gandhi.

Noted . . .

Lisa Marie Presley, 40, is pregnant with baby No. 3, People magazine reports. It will be Presley's first child with husband Michael Lockwood, 46; she has a son and daughter with ex-husband Danny Keough.

. . . And Quoted

"If it's done right, it could be the type of role you called Peter Sellers to do 35 years ago. If you don't do it right, we're going to hell." -- Robert Downey Jr. describing to Entertainment Weekly the thinking behind his latest role (a white actor who dyes his skin black to portray a movie character) in the Ben Stiller-directed satire "Tropic Thunder," opening this summer.

-- Marissa Newhall, from staff and wire reports