"You are the America that we love," Nicolas Sarkozy is reorted to have said, and he added: "Women like you... do a lot to bring our two peoples together."
Barbra Streisand, 65, was accompanied at the Paris ceremony by her husband James Brolin and her son, Jason Gould.
Barbra Streisand performed at Paris' Bercy stadium on Tuesday before an audience of 10,000 fans, and Nicolas Sarkozy's wife Cecilia was one of them.
Barbra Streisand said that Nicolas Sarkozy reminded her of former American presidents John F Kennedy and Bill Clinton.
