Sarkozy and Hollande 'are cousins descended from same 17th century peasant' In the second volume of his book The Political World, author Jean-Louis Beaucarnot has traced both Mr Sarkozy and Mr Hollande to the same man from the tiny village of Saint-Genix-sur-Guiers, near the Swiss border. French daily France-Soir said: "They way these two men attack each other on a daily basis on the campaign trail, one would have thought they have nothing in common. But it now appears that they do, in the form of a humble Alpine peasant who would be delighted to know his descendants have done so well. Mr Beaucarnot told last year how Dominique Strauss-Kahn was descended from a notorious 19th century "pimp." The shamed former IMF chief is the great-grandson of brothel keeper Leon Bricot, who ended his life in prison for shooting one of his customers, Mr Beaucarnot wrote in the first volume of The Political World.