Overview
- Nicolas Sarkozy announced the book on X, with preorders open ahead of a Dec. 10 bookstore release.
- The memoir will be published by Fayard, a house controlled by Vincent Bolloré.
- It draws on roughly three weeks at Paris’s La Santé prison from Oct. 21 to Nov. 10, with a jacket quote describing constant noise and a strengthened inner life.
- Sarkozy was sentenced on Sept. 25 to five years in prison and a €100,000 fine for association de malfaiteurs and has appealed, with hearings set for Mar. 16 to Jun. 3, 2026.
- Freed on Nov. 10, he remains under judicial supervision that bars leaving France and contacting certain figures, including minister Gérald Darmanin.