{"id":8968,"date":"2025-12-14T14:22:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T14:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/sarkozy-casts-himself-as-new-dreyfus-in-prison-memoir\/"},"modified":"2025-12-14T14:22:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T14:22:09","slug":"sarkozy-casts-himself-as-new-dreyfus-in-prison-memoir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/sarkozy-casts-himself-as-new-dreyfus-in-prison-memoir\/","title":{"rendered":"Sarkozy casts himself as new Dreyfus in prison memoir"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<figure class=\"article__media\"> <picture class=\"article__media\">  <\/picture> <noscript>  <\/noscript><figcaption class=\"article__legend\" aria-hidden=\"true\">Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy signs a copy of his book, in Paris, on December 10, 2025.  <span class=\"article__credit\" aria-hidden=\"true\">BERTRAND GUAY\/AFP<\/span>  <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph  \">A word counter reveals a telling result when you run Nicolas Sarkozy&#8217;s <em>Le Journal d&#8217;un prisonnier<\/em> (&#8220;Journal of a Prisoner&#8221;) through it. The term &#8220;injustice&#8221; and its derivatives appear more than 80 times. The author&#8217;s heavy insistence reaches its peak when he compares himself to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lemonde.fr\/en\/politics\/article\/2025\/11\/18\/captain-alfred-dreyfus-receives-posthumous-promotion-130-years-after-scandal_6747575_5.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Captain Alfred Dreyfus<\/a> (1859-1935), who was wrongfully convicted of high treason. Sarkozy does acknowledge, however, that, unlike Dreyfus, he was not exiled&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lemonde.fr\/en\/opinion\/article\/2025\/12\/12\/sarkozy-casts-himself-as-new-dreyfus-in-prison-memoir_6748419_23.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy signs a copy of his book, in Paris, on December 10, 2025. BERTRAND GUAY\/AFP A word counter&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8968\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}