05/04/2025 at 09:33Updated the 05/04/2025 at 09:33
Guest of Léa Salamé in “What era! “, The son of the former President of the Republic returns to the media coverage of his childhood.
We are November 29, 2004. Nicolas Sarkozy is elected boss of the UMP. The former Minister of the Interior and the Economy, a strong man of the right, takes the head of the party of Jacques Chirac. A film is shot to give him courage. All of a sudden, Louis, his 7 -year -old son, intervenes: “Good luck my dad. »Almost 25 years later, it is an adult and the author of an ambitious book on Napoleon* who returns to this sequence. Louis Sarkozy, 28, was the guest of Léa Salamé in “What era” on France 2.
“It is a very small price to pay compared to the immensity of the privilege that was this youth,” said the author and columnist on LCI. “I remember that moment. It seems to me that it was in Bercy, at the ministry. And we absolutely wanted to make me say that: “Good luck, my dad.” And I was already embarrassed. I said “good luck, dad”, “thank you, dad”. I was forced to say “my dad”, because in truth, with my father, we have a relationship which is very fusional, like many sons and many fathers, but we are not in emotional excess “, he details evoking a” certain reluctance “.
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“Is Sarkozy’s new generation as crazy as the previous one? »»
Louis Sarkozy then tried “Photo-Call”, the formatted interview with Léa Salamé. The concept: that the guest poses a question to a personality. What question would he ask Carla Bruni, his mother-in-law? “Is Sarkozy’s new generation as crazy as the previous one? »Giulia Sarkozy, her half-sister? “Do you realize how lucky we have?” »Cécilia, her mother? “I wonder if she wants to enter the public debate like that, because she suffered much more than perhaps everyone in this equation. And his father? “No questions, I already have all the answers. »»
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*”Napoleon, The Emperor of Books”, by Louis Sarkozy, ed. Past / compound.
