
Nicolas Sarkozy won the French presidential election on May 6 with 53 percent of the vote. He will replace Jacques Chirac, a conservative who has been France's president since 1995. His election makes him the first French president born after World War II.
Learn more about Sarkozy's vision for the future of France in his book, Testimony: France in the Twenty-first Century.
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