Overview
- Publisher Fayard announced the 216-page book, titled "Nicolas Sarkozy, The Journal of a Prisoner," with a Dec. 10 publication date.
- A teaser excerpt describes unrelenting noise at Paris’s La Santé prison and says inner life strengthens in confinement.
- Sarkozy served roughly three weeks in detention, kept apart from other inmates, with two bodyguards in a neighboring cell reported for his protection.
- He was released on Nov. 10 after an appeals court approved his request, and his appeal is scheduled to run from March 16 to June 3.
- The conviction stems from findings that associates sought Libyan funding for his 2007 campaign, making him the first former French head of state jailed since Philippe Pétain.