Nicolas Sarkozy's "bling-bling" past comes back to haunt him over claims he paid a small fortune for a holiday in Corsica with his wife Carla and their child Giulia in a luxury beachfront domain whose "shepherds dwellings" can reach

£24,000 per week in August

Nicolas Sarkozy’s political comeback risks being tarred once more by the “bling-bling” brush after it emerged he is staying with his wife at a luxury “shepherd’s hut” in Corsica – in reality one of a string of beachfront villas that cost up to

€34,200 (£24,000) per week.

The conservative leader of France’s mainstream opposition centre-Right, The Republicans, has been struggling to reinvent himself after losing a re-election bid to François Hollande in 2012.

Some attributed his defeat in part to French people’s abhorrence of his “bling bling” image, which he first earned by feting his 2007 presidential victory in Le Fouquet’s a glitzy club on the Champs-Elysées. It was sealed when he borrowed a

billionaire friend’s private jet and mega-yacht for a quick cruise days later after having told friends he intended to go to a mountain monastery to reflect on his victory.
Sarkozy faces 'bling-bling' backlash for stay in luxury Corsican holiday 'shepherd's hut' - Telegraph