The former French president was jailed in October for conspiring to fund his election campaign with money from late Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi.

France’s former president Nicolas Sarkozy left a Paris prison on Monday after an appeals court granted him release under judicial supervision.

Earlier in the day, Sarkozy had described how his imprisonment was a "nightmare" as the appeal court examined his request for his release pending an appeals trial after being convicted of criminal con...