Patrick Buisson (19 April 1949 – 26 December 2023) was a French right-wing essayist, journalist and political advisor.
He was a journalist for Minute, Valeurs Actuelles and Le Crapouillot as well as La Chaîne Info.
His father, Georges Buisson, an engineer for Électricité de France, was a member of the Camelots du Roi,[1] and later the Rally for the Republic.
[2] He received a PhD in History from Paris West University Nanterre La Défense, where his thesis supervisor was Raoul Girardet.
His book about eroticism during Vichy France, which suggests many French women had sexual intercourse with German invaders during World War II, was adapted as a film entitled Love and Sex under Nazi Occupation in 2011.
[3] He suggested renegotiating the Évian Accords, which give special visas to Algerians when they visit France, but Sarkozy turned down the idea.
[2][10] In February 2014, Le Point revealed that Buisson had surreptitiously recorded private conversations he had had with President Sarkozy.
[2] Patrick Buisson had a son, Georges, who is co-owner of Publifact and works for the Histoire TV channel, formerly with his father.
[15] On 21 January 2022, Buisson and three co-defendants, former Sarkozy chief of staff Claude Guéant, former cabinet director Emmanuelle Mignon and former pollster and consultant Pierre Giacometti, were found guilty of polling fraud involving allegations that they misused public money while ordering public opinion polls worth a combined €7.5 million ($8.7 million) during the course of Sarkozy's presidency between 2007 and 2012.