Top sporting positions in India provide prestige, international travel benefits and some control over sports jobs, and Indian officials have been loathe to surrender those privileges.
And if it is clear, to most, that Ms Trierweiler had to surrender official privileges now that she no longer interests M Hollande, how can we ensure, in future, that our first ladies and men are adequately qualified for their public positions?
Our officials, long finding delight in acting as a ruling class, are unlikely to surrender their privileges lightly.
The image of a silk-stocking crowd to-the-manner born, bred and educated to rule, networked into the circuits of power and wealth, professing a concern for the downtrodden but not about to surrender any privileges to alleviate their plight (yet prepared to demand that everyone else pony up) has lodged at the heart of American politics ever since.
There will always be groups who, thanks to the status quo, do not have to surrender their privileges.
But toward the end of his tenure, even he realized that German politics might someday reduce to a choice between surrender of privilege by the old elites or a coup d'état against the liberal and socialist groups he labeled Reichsfeinde (enemies of the Reich).
"If I couldn't afford to pay for school," she said, "then how was I supposed to pay for these programs?" Congressional supporters of the drug prohibition argue that students should obey the law or surrender the privilege of financial aid.
What matters is learning to surrender my privilege and listen to the strong, brave voices of my sisters.
On 4 August 1789, three weeks after the storming of the Bastille, the nobility surrendered their privileges, including the right to control local weights and measures.
But in the Kingdom of God, those who are elevated must surrender their privilege and lift up those who are low.
