THE TELEGRAPH: The father of French President Nicolas Sarkozy, Pal Sarkozy, has said he will set the record of his life straight in a tell-all autobiography.
Mr Sarkozy, a self-confessed bon vivant and womanizer, wrote "Tant de Vie" - which translates as "So Much Life" - after his son advised him against filing lawsuits against his disparagers and instead to "answer later ... about all these unjust accusations."
Mr Sarkozy, 81, said the book is above all a family affair, adding: "This wasn't for the world, it was for my family."
"I wanted to talk to my children," and a book was "the simplest thing," he said in the interview, given on the sidelines of France's annual Book Fair.
A Hungarian immigrant who arrived in France in 1948 penniless, Pal Sarkozy concedes that he hid his past and failed to pass on his heritage to his five children - four sons and a daughter from two of his four wives - because "I wanted them to become French."
The book gives a rare look into the life of a president's father - the first modern-day French president with both parents still living.
But Mr Sarkozy questioned whether his son, Nicolas, should even want to make a second run for re-election in 2012. >>> | Sunday, March 28, 2010
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