By Catherine Bremer PARIS (Reuters) - Months of lurid media coverage about Dominique Strauss-Kahn's 9-minute encounter with a New York hotel maid and other sexual affairs make it hard to imagine the former IMF chief taking a major public role in France in the near future. The dismissal of the attempted rape and assault charges in New York on Tuesday [ID:nN1E77M0NV] -- sparing him a messy U.S.