French President Nicolas Sarkozy has threatened to sue a publishing company unless it withdraws a Sarkozy doll that comes with a "voodoo manual" instructing readers to plant pins in it.
The doll is emblazoned with some of Sarkozy's most famous quotes such as "Get lost you pathetic arsehole" - his words to a bystander who refused to shake his hand at a farm show last year.
Readers are encouraged to plant pins in the quotes.
"Nicolas Sarkozy has instructed me to remind you that, whatever his status and fame, he has exclusive and absolute rights over his own image," the president's lawyer, Thierry Herzog, wrote to publishers K&B in a letter published by newspaper Le Monde.