Divisive, Sarah Knafo is no less fascinating. The companion of Eric Zemmour and director of his presidential campaign is the subject of an investigation with the book The Intriguing Sarah Knafo published by Robert Laffont, written by journalists Ava Djamshidi and François-Xavier Ménage. The book sets out to paint the portrait of an ambitious young woman, marked by her childhood and capable of advising the most influential politicians under the age of thirty. But how did she cross paths with the one who was the star of controversy on television? A scholarly mystery surrounds the origin of their relationship, in which she herself participated… The magazine She offers passages from this book to find out more.
The two personalities are from Seine-Saint-Denis but thirty-four years separate them, they were not intended to meet and form a couple. Two versions are opposed as to their meeting: “Their ancestors would be from the same Berber village” on the one hand. Unless she had him sign a book on the set ofWe are not in bed, Laurent Ruquier’s show where he officiated. In any case, to her friends, she introduces him as “a family friend“or says she is”his niece“. Today, the time is no longer in doubt and the couple no longer hides: Eric Zemmour, father of three children from his marriage to Mylène Chichportich formalized his relationship in January 2022.
Sarah Knafo, an excellent student, joined Sciences-Po Paris and was aiming for the ENA, which she will get after hours of work in her studio in Saint-Germain-des-Prés. A neighborhood where she regularly joined the essayist at the Bonaparte café. He will not be the only mentor of the ambitious young woman, since she rubs shoulders with Hubert Védrine, the former Socialist Minister of Foreign Affairs, Jacques Attali, who was the indispensable adviser to François Mitterrand, and especially Henri Guaino, who she also saw president, but who will move away from her and her theory of the “great replacement”.
Seeing her legend written, Sarah Knafo is both a workaholic and a very skilful socialite, her social intelligence is also noticed by Hubert Védrine, indicates the book. If she managed to make a name for herself in the middle of politics, she still has work to do with her companion to win elections with the Reconquest movement, at the time of the legislative elections.
Find the full interview of the magazine She from June 3, 2022