(FILES) In this file photo taken on October 18, 2016 former French President and candidate for the right-wing Les Republicains (LR) party primaries poses ahead of the 2017 presidential election in Paris. - Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy goes on trial on November 23, 2020 on charges of trying to bribe a judge, in what could be a humiliating postscript to a political career tainted by a litany of legal investigations. Prosecutors say Sarkozy promised the judge a plush job in Monaco in exchange for inside information on an inquiry into claims that Sarkozy accepted illicit payments from L'Oreal heiress Liliane Bettencourt for his 2007 presidential campaign. (Photo by JOEL SAGET / AFP)