Sarkozy, who lost his bid for a second presidential term when Hollande defeated him in the 2012 election, is hoping that winning the regional vote will set him up to return to the Elysee Palace in 2017.
The merger still needs the French government's blessing, so the bosses of the two companies trooped off to the Elysee Palace today to meet President Francois Hollande.
This claim may be subject to the personal accounts of those on the fringes of both men's offices, but there is no doubting the intimacy between Sarkozy and Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, who was the first head of state to make an official visit to the Elysee Palace after Sarkozy's election in 2007.
If Marseille has any real allegiance, it is to the wide Mediterranean and not to the Elysee Palace.
It was after the one he did in 1996-97 that Goss was invited to the Elysee palace by then President Jacques Chirac to receive the Legion d'Honneur award for rescuing Raphael Dinelli from his capsized yacht in the Southern Ocean.
Hollande also phoned Obama to protest and insist on a full explanation, but received only the stock US response that the Americans were examining their intelligence practices and seeking to balance security and privacy imperatives, according to the Elysee Palace.
Instead the call was made to the Elysee palace, and Schwab was put straight through to Valery Giscard d'Estaing.
Shorter after, Sarkozy invited Council leader Mustafa Abdul Jalil to the Elysee Palace, recognized the NTC — which the Blumenthal memo refers to as "France's client" — as the country's official government, and began pressuring other NATO countries to take military action in Libya.
Events have conspired to aid this patently decent, but patently inexperienced, socialist along the rocky path to the Elysee.
A man moved to Hotel Elysee while his house in town was being redecorated.
