Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy has been stripped of his Legion of Honour, the country’s highest distinction, after being convicted of corruption and influence peddling last year.

Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy has lost his appeal against a 2021 conviction for corruption and influence-peddling at the Paris court of appeals. CNN values your feedback 1.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy is looking pretty weak before the election. So he's returning to his old law-and-order pose. Problem is, in his effort to exploit public fears, Sarkozy is courting ...

Sarkozy, who was president from 2007 to 2012, is the first modern French president to be convicted of corruption and sentenced to prison. 2 FRENCH CITIZENS HELD CAPTIVE IN IRAN FINALLY FREE, ...

Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy was handed a one-year prison sentence by a Paris court on Thursday after being found guilty of illegal campaign financing over his failed 2012 re-election bid.

Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy was sentenced on Thursday to one year in prison for illegal campaign financing in his failed 2012 re-election bid, making him the first French head of state ...

Sarkozy’s co-defendants — his lawyer and longtime friend Thierry Herzog, 65 and now-retired magistrate Gilbert Azibert, 74 — were also found guilty and given the same sentence as the politician.

Sarkozy, always a showoff, was also much more blunt about a strategy that can come across as manic. In January 2008, when he had spent eight months in office (as Obama has now) ...

Sarkozy's predecessor, Jacques Chirac, was found guilty in 2011 of misuse of public money during his time as Paris mayor and was given a two-year suspended prison sentence.

Sarkozy, to be sure, is no Thatcher, and France is no 1980s Britain, which was mired in strikes and stagflation. Last year, the French economy grew 2.1 percent. Unemployment, ...

President-elect's luxury yacht holiday stirs controversy in France. May 11, 2007 — -- In a battle that would have made Napoleon proud, Nicolas Sarkozy defeated Segolene Royal, France's first ...