The year 2007 was as trying as it was invigorating for Nicolas Sarkozy. The President of the French Republic is going through a complicated period. His marriage with Cécilia Attias is floundering and ends in divorce. Far from rejoicing in this family failure, Nicolas Sarkozy does not suspect that his life will quickly switch back to happiness thanks to his unexpected meeting with Carla Bruni.
He confided it himself in his book Passions published in 2019 by Editions de l’Observatoire: “When I least expected it, I thus made the most important meeting of my life. The one who counted the most, who gave me the most.” A few months later, the politician and the singer said ‘yes’ to each other in the green salon of the Elysée. Nothing has ever separated them since. On the contrary. The birth of their daughter Giulia in 2011 has only brought them closer .
Nicolas Sarkozy, who had only known the joy of having boys, then experienced the close relationship that a dad can have with his daughter. Rare are the times when the predecessor of François Hollande speaks of this happiness but he made an exception with the journalists of the World in an article published on June 10. Nicolas Sarkozy has again become a dad like everyone else, far from the obligations incumbent on him as head of state: he therefore takes his little Giulia, 10, to school every morning.
This daily ritual, between father and daughter, Nicolas Sarkozy values it more than anything and no longer intends to miss it. Just like for his holidays, which he now makes it a point of honor to live surrounded by his family, “Carla and the children“: “Now I’m stuck on the school agenda, he admits with a smile, reflecting the happiness that these moments spent with his family bring him. Moreover, Nicolas Sarkozy has always equated the birth of his daughter with a “miracle“: “I have learned (…) that we were the age of his children. Since Giulia, who is younger than my grandson Solal, I have become much younger!“For the former president, it is clear that love has, more than ever, been lifesaving.