It’s a boy! French President Nicolas Sarkozy, 54, becomes a grandfather

French President Sarkozy becomes a grandfather

PARIS — French President Nicolas Sarkozy has become a grandfather.

The wife of his 23-year-old son Jean gave birth to a baby boy, and Sarkozy said the parents named him Solal.

The baby was born Wednesday in the posh western Paris suburb of Neuilly-sur-Seine, according to an official close the presidency and one of Sarkozy’s good friends.

Jean is a law student and regional councilor west of Paris. He married former high-school classmate Jessica Sebaoun-Darty, an heiress of a French electronics-vending empire, in 2008.

Jean is the second of 54-year-old Sarkozy’s three sons.