Outlines the political platform of French president (to be) Nicolas Sarkozy. The author is a retail politician who rose to the finance and interior ministries, unusual for someone who is not an ‘Enarque’. His the more remarkable for being overtly post-Gaullist in a conservative party; Sarkozy writes he is focused not on international grandeur but instead on domestic capabilities and progress, particularly relative to Europe. (He is of course a pan-European, but also an Americanist.) Driven by political examples, such as the pernicious effects of the 35-hour week, and drawing on examples from his time in government, the work does not stamp out a doctrine per se, but constitutes an interesting snapshot.