He has long been - little - known for his censored tweets, his penchant for heavy weapons and his long months of bloody confrontations with Léonard Trierweiler on Twitter.
But that was before.
Before he returned in 2019, about to earn a degree in philosophy and art history at New York University (NYU) on the one hand;
posing as the other's 'shoe designer'.
The son of Nicolas Sarkozy indeed announced, at 22, the launch of a collection of studded moccasins in collaboration with the Spanish shoemaker Boonper.
Behind a style that could not be more classic, the paw of the young Sarkozy was expressed above all through the titles of the aforesaid shoes - the "Curie" for Marie Curie, the "TJ" for Thomas Jefferson or the "Sigmund" for Freud.
The collaboration
The same year, the young man published a book of epistolary exchanges with his mother, Cécilia Attias, entitled
A desire for disagreement (s)
(ed. Plon), casting doubt on the possibility of a political career for the son of the former President of the Republic.
Cécilia Attias claimed to project her son as "the politician of tomorrow", even if he then joked: "I have no political will (...) but we'll talk about it again in 2035."
In video, Louis Sarkozy and Cécilia Attias on the set of "C à Vous" in 2019
A childhood between Beauvau and Bercy
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Nicolas Sarkozy caresses the cheek of his son Louis during his investiture at the Elysee Palace in Paris on May 16, 2007. Abaca
Like Chelsea Clinton or even the Obama girls, Louis Sarkozy is one of those born into it.
In the very special world of big politics.
At 5, the son of Cecilia Ciganer, her maiden name, and Nicolas Sarkozy learned to read between the walls of the Ministry of the Interior.
At 7, he lived in Bercy.
At barely 11 years old, he walked the steps of 55, rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré for his father's investiture at the Élysée.
“I was raised by security officers, he confided to
Paris Match
in 2015. When all my friends met to play together, I was in the security office playing
Half- Life
or other video games with them.
At 7 or 8 years old they took me to shoot, I already had a real passion for weapons”.
“Gun lover,” read his Twitter description not too long ago.
This explaining that, he quickly devoted himself to a military career, dreaming of being US Marines.
After two years at the French high school in New York, where he arrived in 2007 with his mother (following the post-presidential election breakup of his parents), the youngest of the Sarkozy sons joined the Valley Forge Academy, a military school at the age of 14. located in Tredyffrin, northwest of Philadelphia.
The course begins with six weeks of intensive training without possible contact with his family.
“At the time of saying goodbye to my mother, I passed out, he admits with a slight English accent in the video of
Paris Match
.
I really wanted to go but I was very emotional."
Holidays at the Élysée and clashes on Twitter
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Louis Sarkozy in military uniform as part of his course at the Valley Forge Academy, which he entered in 2011, at age 14.
@JudeNewYork/Twitter
There, he calls himself Louis Adams, so that no one knows that he is the son of the President of the Republic.
This is reminiscent of the alias Prince Harry used, Henry Wales, during his months in the Army Air Corps.
“In the third year, I fired between 150 and 300 cartridges per week”, proudly says the one who sees his father for the holidays, at the Élysée.
The only intact memory of his moments spent in the presidential residence, the excursions in the gardens with his friend Geoffrey, in the middle of the night, disguised as soldiers.
If he does not deny having always known his very busy father, he also admits never having suffered from it, very surrounded by members of staff - his "40 dads" - and his half-brothers Pierre and Jean Sarkozy, ten years old his elders.
His “military” years were marked by his relationship with Capucine Anav, star of “Angels of reality TV” then columnist in the program “Touche pas à mon poste” on C8.
“I was only 16 you know”, he reminds
Gala
in an April 2019 issue. “Finding myself in a kind of media exposure of this nature was neither intended nor calculated.
I suffered the consequences more than anything else.
Consequences he also suffers in his battle 2.0 against the son of Valérie Trierweiler on Twitter.
Basically, when @Sarko_Junior said "It must be hard to be known as the ex's son, and really, what a man this François is, your mother has good taste" (sic), @trierweiler3 replied: "Is it auntie Nadine who writes your tweets for being so arrogant and useless in French?"
The hatchet was publicly buried in 2015 around an improvised aperitif on the terrace.
Philosophy and moccasins
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Louis Sarkozy and his girlfriend Natali Husic watch a PSG match in the VIP stands of the Parc des Princes, in Paris, on August 20, 2017. Abaca
Since then, Louis Sarkozy has been a new man.
He measures 1.90 m, already.
His Twitter avatar is no longer @Sarko_Junior, nor the most peaceful @Louis_Kozy.
He is simply - officially - absent from social networks.
While he was logically to join the military university The Citadel, in South Carolina, to one day become a GI, Louis Sarkozy changed his tune and enrolled in the New York University (NYU) section philosophy, history of art and religions, from which he must have - logically - graduated in 2020. After his breakup with Capucine Anav, he appeared in 2017 with a young American named Natali Husic, half model, half student in drama in New York.
He had just married her, five years later, during an autumn weekend in Gordes, in Provence,