"Je ne suis pas un homme de demi-mesures, j'ai des passions, je poursuivrai … ces passions, convaincu que, dans la vie, on a plusieurs vies"

The man whom Bernadette Chirac calls Nero, on whom her husband became "Villepin-dependant", and who tried to do to Nicolas Sarkozy what Jacques Chirac did to Edouard Balladur is given near-heroic treatment by Christophe Jakubyszyn in the prime minister's final weeks at Matignon.