Political scientist and essayist, Laurent Bouvet was 53 years old. He died of Charcot’s disease.
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Laurent Bouvet is dead. The political scientist, co-founder of the secular Printemps Républicain movement, died on Saturday December 18 in Paris, his wife Astrid Panosyan-Bouvet announced on Facebook. Aged 53, he had Charcot’s disease, a neurodegenerative disease that had deprived him of the use of his limbs and speech, as he explained at the end of November on the social network.
His memory has been praised by several members of the government, such as the Minister of National Education Jean-Michel Blanquer and the Deputy Minister Marlène Schiappa.
Goodbye Laurent Bouvet.
He embodied courage in his thought as in his life.
He defended what we have most precious in common: the Republic and therefore freedom, humanism, universalism.
In thought with him, with Astrid and her children. https://t.co/w0IjlK7EgI– Jean-Michel Blanquer (@jmblanquer) December 18, 2021
Huge sadness.
Our friend Laurent Bouvet was much more than an intellectual, great defender of the republican left. Words are lacking today to express his erudition, his humor, his generosity.
Thoughts of Astrid and their daughters; as well as to his relatives.
We loved him. pic.twitter.com/ee6dqKAvwr– MarleneSchiappa (@MarleneSchiappa) December 18, 2021
In 2016, Laurent Bouvet had founded, with Gilles Clavreul, then interministerial delegate for the fight against racism and anti-Semitism, the Printemps Républicain, a movement advocating a strict vision of secularism. Very active on social networks, several of its members had been accused of carrying out harassment campaigns against their critics.