Nicolas Sarkozy, Stamp Collector

Who’d have thunk that French President Nicolas Sarkozy would be into stamp collecting?

From a BBC report:

French President Nicolas Sarkozy is finding time in his hectic schedule to collect stamps, it has been revealed.

The man nicknamed “Speedy Sarko” is better known for more boisterous pastimes such as skiing and jogging.

But he now sponsors fellow philatelists in a new club at the Elysee Palace, where he lives with wife Carla Bruni.

Foreign dignitaries including California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger are helping Mr Sarkozy to fill his albums.

“Mr Sarkozy’s collection is slowly growing into one of the most impressive in the world because of all the international leaders he is in regular contact with,” a source at the newly formed Elysee Philatelist Club told the UK’s Daily Telegraph newspaper.

In a letter to a philately organization, the President had this to say of his hobby:

“I share your passion for stamps and philately. I have been a stamp collector since I was a young boy – this hobby is an opening to the world, to history and great events.

“I’m still sure that philately will maintain its rightful place if stamps retain their social and economic utility, in terms of letter-writing, beauty and rarity. But stamps of course have to adapt to 21st-Century culture.

“Philately is our hobby, it’s also a world of artists, engravers, page designers. I want to pay homage to them, because it shows real talent to illustrate sometimes abstract topics, to create an original work of art for each stamp, covering such a small area.”

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