Sarkozy casts himself as new Dreyfus in prison memoir

A word counter reveals a telling result when you run Nicolas Sarkozy’s Le Journal d’un prisonnier (“Journal of a Prisoner”) through it. The term “injustice” and its derivatives appear more than 80 times. The author’s heavy insistence reaches its peak when he compares himself to Captain Alfred Dreyfus (1859-1935), who was wrongfully convicted of high treason. Sarkozy does acknowledge, however, that, unlike Dreyfus, he was not exiled…