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As mentioned here, the French sued Ryanair over an advertisement. Now, Reuters reports that… well, basically… they won:

A French court ordered budget airline Ryanair Tuesday to pay damages to President Nicolas Sarkozy and his new wife Carla Bruni for using their picture in an advertisement but the sum was less than Bruni had sought.

The court ordered Ryanair to pay symbolic damages of one euro to Sarkozy and 60,000 euros ($88,870) to his wife. Bruni, at one time one of the world’s most highly paid fashion models, had been seeking damages of 500,000 euros.

Sarkozy and Bruni sued Ryanair over the advertisement for cut price tickets published in Le Parisien newspaper last week, featuring a photo of the smiling pair.

The advertisement showed a cartoon bubble above Bruni, the scion of an Italian industrial dynasty, reading: “With Ryanair, my whole family can come to my wedding.”

So, Sarkozy gets ONE EURO and Bruni gets €60,000… sorry but… what?

Apparently Ryanair admitted that “the advertisement was facetious”.

Well, duh!