On Europe 1, the former animator Patrick Sébastien said he had offered François Hollande, at the time he was president, a mask representing Nicolas Sarkozy. A joke to which Francois Hollande responded enthusiastically, according to him.

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Former flagship figure of France Télévisions, Patrick Sébastien, has now left the small screen to devote himself to his artistic career. He has just released a book of interviews, Without Channels and a new album, entitled Entre nous , that he came to present Friday in Ça fait du bien , on Europe 1. During the show, he also came back on his links with Francois Hollande, whom he was close to and with whom he sometimes joked.

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In 2014, after the publication of photos of François Hollande on a scooter alongside the actress Julie Gayet, Patrick Sébastien revealed at the microphone of Anne Roumanoff, having given a mask with the effigy of the former president Nicolas Sarkozy to François Holland. "I went into his office and said, 'I brought you something so that you would not have you next time,' and I offered him the mask," recalls the former presenter. According to him, this farce was well received by the former president, who even added. "He laughed, he took the mask and said, 'No, I do not want [Nicolas Sarkozy] to come back in. Maybe if I go to Fouquet's, maybe I'll put it in,'" says Patrick Sebastien who claims to find it "funny".

"The same charisma, the same smile"

In the wake, Francois Hollande chained with another mockery about the mask, retorting: "It's beautiful: it has the same charisma, the same smile" before returning the object and throw: "and behind, it's hollow and empty. "

Patrick Sébastien explains that these taunts are childish at first. "It's a snub and at the same time, it's friendly," says the former host, who then tells another story about François Hollande. "One time, he summed up the function of President of the Republic saying: 'In a restaurant, the customer who is not happy, demands to bring the boss, we have 60 million people who, every morning, ask the boss. '"