After justice, education. Indeed, Nicole Belloubet, Minister of Justice from 2017 to 2020 during Emmanuel Macron’s first five-year term, has just been appointed Minister of National Education this Thursday, February 8, 2024 as part of Gabriel Attal’s reshuffle. In fact, the Prime Minister ousts Amélie Oudéa-Castéra from this post but the latter remains Minister of Sports, Olympic and Paralympic Games as our colleagues from BFMTV.
Nicole Belloubet therefore knows very well this role of minister entrusted to him by Joyce’s ex-companion Jonathan. And it is not the tragedies that she has experienced during her life that will slow her down in her work. Indeed, the new Minister of Education has experienced many tragedies in the past. Starting with the tragic death of her husband in 2005, Pierre-Laurent Frier, father of her three children.
Aged 52, he died in a car accident as told Nicole Belloubet during an interview with Paris Match
in August 2019. “I met him at university when I was a student”, she notably revealed. Adrien, Jean-Baptiste, and Martin, are the fruit of their love. Their first boy’s first name? It was also the new Minister of National Education who chose him.
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Nicole Belloubet, single mother of a large family
“Adrien, I chose him in reference to my father who died shortly after his birth”she revealed to our colleagues before specifying: “I hesitated to write it with an ‘H’, because Marguerite Yourcenar’s book, the Memoirs of Hadrian, is extraordinary, but I found it a little snobbish. My husband chose the middle name. And me, the third. Martin is a symbolic first name of France and the legend of Saint Martin is very beautiful”.
Dramas which shaped her and which did not prevent her from obtaining the position she holds today. Although in her early childhood she did not dream of becoming a minister, but an cosmonaut as she indicated to Paris Match.