Overview
- Sarkozy recounts roughly three weeks at Paris’s La Santé in near‑isolation, describing prayer, weekly talks with the chaplain, and a strict diet of dairy, cereal bars, water and juice.
- He says he wrote the account by hand each day during and immediately after detention, passing pages to his lawyers and secretary to transcribe.
- Publisher Fayard will release the over‑200‑page book on December 10, with a Paris signing that day followed by a wider tour.
- Europe 1, Le Figaro and TF1/LCI ran advance extracts, and both those outlets and the publisher are controlled by Vincent Bolloré.
- The text mixes personal testimony with politics, criticizing Emmanuel Macron, noting support from Marine Le Pen and Sébastien Chenu, and condemning a visit by two LFI deputies, while his five‑year sentence in the Libyan case is on appeal and his Bygmalion and wiretapping convictions are final with other probes ongoing.