"We [Paris] have long had the Marriage Fair, and I thought, 'why not a fair for people going through separations?'" Brigitte Gaumet, the organizer of the event, told The Associated Press. "Lots of people going through divorces -- and also people getting separated or who are widowed -- are looking for information on how to bounce back and how to reconstruct."

Gaumet added that the Sarkozy's divorce -- and his remarriage to supermodel Carla Bruni -- has "crystallized that divorce has lost its stigma and is really a commonplace thing".

Most of the fair's attendees reportedly were women. Some of the event's seminars included "Plastic Surgery's Role in Re-Conquering Your Image", "How to Re-Seduce Your Partner Using the Gestalt Method", and "Separation: What does a lawyer do?" Meanwhile, there were more than 60 exhibits offering weight-loss tips, fortune readings, self-esteem coaching, and makeovers. The booths offering legal advice proved most popular.

According to France's National Institute of Demographic Studies, the nation's divorce rate is close to 50%. There were more than 130,000 French divorces in 2007, well over two-and-a-half times the numbers in similar statistics during the late 1970s.