On September 26, Francis, Nicholas’ brother Sarkozy, published the book Growing old happily is possible! The keys to living better and longer. Sunday December 31, the 64-year-old doctor gave an interview to JDD. The opportunity to say more about his childhood memories, his personality, or even his vision of the political world. Also questioned on the presidential election of his eldest, who dates back to May 2007, he explained that he felt “immense pride and a lot of emotion.”
The reason being the thought he had, at this symbolic moment in his brother’s career, for their “grandfather who [les] took to see the parades on the Champs-Élysées”. Even if he admires Nicolas Sarkozy’s career and is “proud of [s]to sister” and his other brothers, François declared that he did not necessarily want to be asked if he is “The brother of”. In any case, the doctor, who seems far from the political world, agreed to discuss his opinion on the latter. He thus affirmed, in all frankness, that he found “horribly violent, while the men and women who work there give a lot of themselves to work for the collective good.” A way to highlight the work accomplished by the former President of the Republic, despite criticism.
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A family “composed of characters”
And if it seems appreciate each of the projects carried out by Nicolas Sarkozy, he is nonetheless his first fan, as he suggested by indicating that his reading of the moment was none other than The Time of Fighting, the continuation of the Memoirs of the ex-president of the LR, published on August 19 by Fayard editions (after The Time of Storms, published by L’Observatoire, released in July 2020). With our colleagues, François Sarkozy also spoke about his best childhood memory with his brothers, which is none other than “holidays in the countryside” that he spent with “a family that had nothing conventional”. It must be said that the words that come to his mind when he talks about it are “original, composed of characters”. Enough to accurately describe the Sarkozy clan.
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