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Neo-Bonapartism? A parallel between Nicolas Sarkozy and Napoleon III even more amplified by the striking air de famille of the Bonapartes) sustained during his childhood and adolescence the redundancy of the “bastard” nickname that resonated within the French politics closed salons of this epoch and reinforced later on his opponents’ accusations of illegitimacy vis à vis the power. In addition, his obtaining of the Swiss nationality in 1832 raised even further the fingers pointing at his illegitimacy to the French throne. “The only Swiss who ruled France » (Roux, 1969) and Nicolas Paul Stéphane Sarközy de Nagy-Bocsa (the full name of Sarkozy as registered in the French Etat Civil) are companion of misfortune at this regard since the current French head of state is being reproached as well his origins, being “pas assez Français” (not French enough) for Le Pen for instance (2006). As a matter of fact, Sarkozy is of Hungarian descent from his father, who belonged to the petite bourgeoisie which was ennobled in the 17 th century by the Emperor Ferdinand II of Habsbourg. In parallel, his mother Andrée Mallah was of Greek-Judeo descent; her grandfather, Mordechai Mallah, was one of “the eight sons of Aaron Mallah, founder of the Rabbinical school of Salonika” (Bayron, 2004). Are those personal paths of any incidence over the firmness of their respective immigration and nationality policies? No academically sound answer seems accurate at this regard, even though this question is reasonable to raise. Another political dislike, shared by both politicians, was cultivated in their early years. Bonaparte’s life-lasting aversion for and oppression of the Communist Carbonari and Sarkozy’s same vision regarding Communism in general, are startling of resemblance. This latter distilled during his entire political curriculum several verbal raids against Communism; “the threshold being crossed” according to a communiqué of the French Communist Party issued in February 2008 which denounced the president’s saying during the annual diner of the CRIF (Council of A website dedicated to this project is available starting Dec 7 th 2010 at: http://www.aui.ma/personal/~Y.Assaoui/ 4
Neo-Bonapartism? A parallel between Nicolas Sarkozy and Napoleon III the Judaic institutions in France) that “Communism and Nazism are alike” (at this point, it is interesting to underline the President of the European Parliament’s assimilation of “the Nazi genocide with the Communist brutal oppression” (Liphshiz, 2010). Again, the familial historical backstage of both of the Emperor and the President (and what it implies in terms of early - that is strong - socialization) is one (among many other likely) source of causality. Napoleon III is at this regard simply shared the Bonapartist ideological standpoint which was transmitted to him by his tutor Phillipe Le Bas (Thompson, 1955) according to whom Communism meant the end of the Napoleonic tradition, being therefore in complete contradiction with his family’s – in extenso his own– interests. Sarkozy as well inherited of a familial burden he still carries on (since this affair is still not resolved in Hungary). In point of fact, Sarkozy’s biographers recently unveiled the fact that the Sarközy de Nagy-Bocsa family was driven out of the country bloodily by the Red Army in 1944 and expropriated of all of its possessions (either their chateaux or agricultural lands near Budapest). The Communists thus exiled the Sarkozys from Hungary; France welcomed in the 1950s the father of their soon-to-become 23 rd President. Finally both of the 21 st century President and the 19 th century Emperor elbowed in and evolved toward supreme power through disturbed waters. Their respective pre-power paths were not straight and narrow but rather full of disturbances and miscellaneous obstacles which stood in their ways, to the extent that at some times the success of their undertaking seemed thoughtfully endangered. In fact, and to start with, Napoleon III is a case of rare occurrence in the history of French politics. His childhood, adolescence, and early adulthood were spent in exile; because of the state-ban imposed on his family. Starting from January 1816, he was buffeted throughout Europe (Italy, Switzerland, Germany, United Kingdom…) for an extended A website dedicated to this project is available starting Dec 7 th 2010 at: http://www.aui.ma/personal/~Y.Assaoui/ 5
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