Sarkozy, Bolloré and the battle for the soul of France

01 October 2025, The Tablet

Vincent Bolloré, the Catholic billionaire who warns against the ‘Great Replacement’.

Alamy/AP, Thibault Camus

The trial and imprisonment of former president will be seized on by billionaire media magnate to bolster his crusade against those he claims are the enemies of France’s Catholic heritage

While France’s political parties undermine each other’s attempts to form a government that could guide France out of crisis – a crisis caused, many believe, by the vanity and incompetence of the republic’s president, Emmanuel Macron – the country’s “social contract” is slowly falling to pieces.

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