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Nicolas Sarkozy: "There is a French culture!"

2021-09-17T05:06:25.349Z


EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW - The former president publishes Promenades, a book on culture, in which he surprises because, for the first time, he reveals his passion for art, explains his cultural choices and insists on the need for France to have an ambitious cultural policy, such as ...


With Nicolas Sarkozy, everything becomes political, even when he intends to move away from the subject.

While waiting for the rest of the

Memoirs

of his five-year term, he takes a side step which puts him back on a ground that could become one of the rare dividing lines between the right and the left in the presidential campaign. In this short text, embellished with a series of works selected by him, the former president evokes his Elyos choices and his personal tastes. Do not look for Ming vases and African masks - as at Jacques Chirac - or Tinguely and Vasarely - as Georges Pompidou liked. The universe of Nicolas Sarkozy - if we put aside sport and French song - is, in this book, very classic, very European, and very French. It is a choice of intervention in the public debate,at a time when a not insignificant part of the academic world and of cultural actors is striving to deconstruct even the last stone of the foundations of the Western edifice. Nicolas

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Source: lefigaro

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