Full of resources, Nicolas Sarkozy.
The former president made, this year, not his political but literary comeback.
On September 22, his new book, called
Promenades
,
will appear
, published by the Herscher house, part of the Humensis group on which the Observatory editions also depend, according to our colleagues from
L'Obs
.
Three hundred pages devoted to his cultural journey.
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: the indiscretions of
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In honor of the personal pantheon of the former head of state, Nicolas de Staël, Picasso, Camille Claudel, David Hockney, but also Aragon, Rimbaud, Balzac and Émile Zola.
The occasion, also, to make penetrate its readers in its collection of old books, of which Nicolas Sarkozy took the trouble to make copy some sheets of the original manuscripts which it holds.
While giving pride of place to authors, artists and actors who are dear to him, the author wishes to warn against “cancel culture” (culture of erasure).
It recalls the importance of French cultural heritage and defends the foundations of our Western civilization.
"Politics, I write your name"
, to pastiche Éluard.
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consecrated by La Pléiade
Finally, highlighted as an injunction to ecstasy, a quote from the late Jean d'Ormesson:
"We must admire!"
Subtle message sent to his troops or snub to his detractors?
Because this publication comes at a delicate moment for the former president, who was sentenced on March 1, 2021, at first instance, to three years in prison, two of which were suspended, for corruption and influence peddling in the so-called case. "Eavesdropping". A first for a President of the Fifth Republic. Nothing definitive however, Nicolas Sarkozy having since appealed.