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The intellectual Laurent Bouvet, herald of the Republican left, is dead

2021-12-18T17:35:50.558Z


DISAPPEARANCE - Ardent defender of secularism, the academic and founder of the Republican Spring Laurent Bouvet died after a fight against Charcot's disease, at the age of 53.


The Republic is crying and France is with it. One of its most fervent defenders, man of spirit and courage passed away this Saturday, December 18. After having faced with exemplary dignity, a terrible disease, Laurent Bouvet left us. In grief and emotion, memories come to the surface. It was, three years ago, in November 2018, Laurent Bouvet had just turned 50. Astrid, his wife, who is also the co-founder of En Marche, had organized a birthday party for him. There were longtime friends of Laurent, some of his comrades from the Republican Spring, but also former elected officials or socialist activists, or even Macronist ministers and executives as well as figures from the other side. For him, the community of thought counted more than thepartisan affiliation, deep convictions, more than labels. "What brings people together is not the community of opinions, it is the consanguinity of minds", wrote Marcel ...

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Source: lefigaro

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