Prior to be joined on a motorcycle by Carla Bruni

Nicolas Sarkozy was hospitalized yesterday in the Val-de-Grâce and should remain there until this morning. The head of State, fifty-four years old, was taken malaise shortly after 1300 hours, while he was of the footing to Versailles where he spent the weekend at the residence of the Lantern, adjacent to the Park of the Castle. His entourage reported "malaise vagal considered minor", i.e. a loss of consciousness due to the overactivity of the nerve that is used to slow down the heart rate. "It goes well" and "talk normally with the caregivers", assured Claude Guéant, Secretary General of the Elysee Palace. "It goes well, he is hungry, he rail", added another of his relatives, Patrick Balkany, MP and Mayor UMP Levallois - Perret, explaining this malaise by his "fatigue", his "efforts" and his "regime". Vagal syncope are very spectacular but present no danger to the patient. For evidence, the Presidency has been advised that the displacement of Nicolas Sarkozy in the Mont-Saint-Michel, tomorrow, "continued" (see page 3).

Hyperactive, nervous and impulsive

A witness who requested anonymity and was walking to the Palace of Versailles recounted seeing a man back to collapse after 13 hours while he was doing his footing, surrounded by bodyguards. Prior to be joined, on a motorcycle, by Carla Bruni. Nicolas Sarkozy "has been immediately supported by his doctor", indicated the Elysee Palace in a brief press release, while François Fillon écourtait his weekend in la Sarthe to return to Paris. Hyperactive, nervous and impulsive, the head of State practice regularly race walking and cycling. His latest health bulletin, published on 3 July, indicated that "several medical examinations cardiovascular and blood" had been prescribed and that their results were "normal".

His opponents political, anxious to show that they do not seek to take advantage of a health accident, were the first to respond. The Mayor of Paris, Bertrand Delanoë, wished him "a speedy recovery", followed closely by Martine Aubry, the first Secretary of the PS. François Bayrou, author of a pamphlet to the vitriol against the head of State, broke the silence he emerged from his backhand to European to form "personal wishes" for Nicolas Sarkozy as quickly as possible is the best of the health. "I am sure that by saying this, I shared the sense of all the French, regardless of their political options", stated the President of the democratic movement.

Sensitive subject

The health of the Presidents of the Republic is in France a sensitive issue, especially since it has been learned that François Mitterrand cancer had been hidden for years. Jacques Chirac, he even had a "small vascular incident" highly publicized brain in September 2005, resulting in his hospitalization for a week in the Val-de-Grâce. During his presidential campaign in 2007, Nicolas Sarkozy promised to regularly publish newsletters of health if elected. Five days after its entry into service, May 16, 2007, the Elysee has published a brief newsletter, ensuring that it was "able" to exercise the functions of head of State. In October of the same year, he was briefly hospitalized for removal of an abscess in the throat. Surgery revealed in a book published three months later.