Monte-Cristo Behind Bars

He entered the Santé prison yesterday as if opening a new chapter of a novel: a copy of The Count of Monte Cristo in one hand, a biography of Jesus in the other. This choice is not random: these books symbolize political messages as well as companions during hardship. Nicolas Sarkozy, the first former president of the French Fifth Republic to sleep behind bars, does not just accept his sentence; he aims to narrate it. He tries to transform a d ...