Death of Pal Sarkozy, painter and father of the former French president

Pal Sarközy de Nagy-Bocsa, father of the former President of the Republic, Nicolas Sarkozy, has just passed away at the age of 94.

Pal Sarközy de Nagy-Bocsa, father of Nicolas Sarkozy, and painter of Hungarian origin, died on Saturday at the age of 94. It was Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, the wife of the former president, who announced the news on Instagram this Sunday.

“RIP Pal Sarkozy de Nagy Bocsa, May 5, 1928-March 4, 2023. Rest in peace,” she captioned a photo of a young Pal Sarkozy. The resemblance to his son Nicolas is quite striking.

Born in a village in Hungary, Pal Sarkozy married Andrée Mallah, mother of his first three sons, Guillaume, Nicolas and François, first in 1950. Remarried three times, he had two other children, Caroline and Pierre-Olivier.

Foreign Legion

Painter, Pal Sarkozy, who has also worked in , notably immortalized his son and daughter-in-law, Carla Bruni, and exhibited his works in Madrid in 2008, Budapest in 2010. He produced his paintings with the artist German, Werner Hornung.

The painter and father of Nicolas Sarkozy, Pal Sarkozy, in Monaco in front of one of his works. – VALERY HACHE / AFP

In 2010, he published his memoirs, titled so much life, on his incredible journey. He told there in particular how he had joined the foreign legion, and had been homeless in Paris at the end of the 1940s, and stateless. “Ten days following arriving in Paris, I had work, as a delivery man, it allowed me to feed myself with a baguette a day”, he recalled in 2010 on the show The guest from TV5 Monde.

His former wife, Andrée Mallah, passed away in 2017.

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