EXCLUSIVE – In this book which appears on Friday, the former president looks back on the multiple crises that marked the start of his five-year term. A book “written for the French”, he confides in Figaro.
–“How long do you think we’ll have?”, asks Carla Bruni-Sarkozy. “You’ll see, we have two and a half months”, answers Nicolas Sarkozy. Moments earlier, this March 16, Emmanuel Macron has just announced the start of confinement, due to coronavirus. France is at a standstill, the unprecedented health crisis. It is “the time of storms”. The next day, 6:30 a.m., at his desk in Cap Nègre, Nicolas Sarkozy began writing his new book, eight hours a day, a year after the publication of Passions or “The story of an ambition and the realization of an ambition”.
This time, Nicolas Sarkozy addresses the exercise of power. “I tried through this observation post that is the Presidency of the Republic to describe what France is”, he explains. The writing barely started, the former president has just found the title: The time of storms. “I thought it was a great title”, he confides to Figaro. “Maybe because we were in the storm
