Nicolas Sarkozy made his literary comeback with the publication of his memoirs entitled The time of battles published by Fayard on Tuesday August 22, 2023. Since then, the former mayor of Neuilly-sur-Seine has had a series of signing sessions and interviews. In the middle of a promotion period, the former President of the Republic devoted a little of his time to six readers of the Parisian to discuss current affairs. An interview in the format of questions and answers published by the Ile-de-France daily Sunday August 27, 2023. Among the questions was the relationship of Carla Bruni’s husband with the current President of the Republic, Emmanuel Macron. To the great surprise of Michel, the interlocutor who asked if the two men had seen each other this summer, Nicolas Sarkozy confided that he had declined the invitation to dinner at Fort Brégançon from the Head of State. “He very kindly offered me with his wife that we come to dine at Fort Brégançon, but we were abroad”, explained the father of Pierre (38 years old), Jean (36 years old), Louis (26 years old) and Giulia (11 years old). Indeed, the former presidential couple was on vacation in Sardinia with their daughter.
A well-maintained friendly relationship
To justify his refusal to meet with the President, Nicolas Sarkozy specified: “We see each other every summer. Personally, I find him friendly, I get on well with him”. A response that allowed one of the six readers of the Parisian to bounce back on a slightly more political question: “And Emmanuel Macron is listening to you?”he hastened to ask. “It’s an interesting question, I sometimes ask myself it too”, replied the husband of the former Italian model Carla Bruni, full of irony. If the two spouses did not stop at Fort Brégançon during the summer of 2023, the couple went there last year, according to an article published by our colleagues from Parisian Saturday September 3, 2022. A discreet meeting that took place over dinner. “Like this evening in August, when the presidential couple received, according to our information, Nicolas Sarkozy and his wife, Carla, for dinner, on vacation a stone’s throw away in their villa in Cap Nègre”had revealed the newspaper.