Gabriel Attal is the son of Odessan Orthodox Christian Marie de Kouris and Tunisian Jewish lawyer and film producer Yves Attal, who passed away in 2015. He goes by Gabriele Attal de Courais in full, and he was raised in Paris with his three younger sisters.
Once Gabriel Attal spoke to the news organization Liberation: “My father told me that even if you are christian, you would feel Jewish all of your life since you are anti-Semitic due to your name.
Gabriel Attal attended the École Alsacienne, a private school in the 6th arrondissement of Paris that is popular with parents in the political and artistic circles and where English instruction is required starting in elementary school. She later described the bullying she experienced at school. He pursued his master’s degree in public affairs at the esteemed Po University of Sciences after receiving his bachelor’s degree.
Gabriel Attal’s Political Journey
Friends claim that when he witnessed a protest against Jean-Marie Le Pen following the far-right leader’s election to the second round of the 2002 presidential contest against Jacques Chirac, it ignited his political aspirations. As Segolene Royal, the Socialist Party’s presidential candidate in the 2007 elections, Gabriel Attal joined the party in 2006.
After doing volunteer work at the former Health Minister Marisol Torren’s office in 2012—who happens to be one of his classmates’ mothers—he was able to secure a full-time position at the ministry at the age of 23.
Touraine called him a “responsible, clever man” and that he will have “a great career and a bright future.”
In order to join Emmanuel Macron‘s fledgling centrist political party En Marche, which subsequently evolved into La République En Marche (LREM), Gabriel Attal quit the Socialist party in 2016.
Since then, he has followed Macron’s lead and risen up the political ranks at an irresistible pace.
Upon being appointed secretary of state in the education ministry at the age of 29, he became the youngest member of the government.
He has served in a number of prominent political positions, including minister of education, public accounts, government spokesperson, and chairman of LREM. In June of last year, he was elected to the Assemblée Nationale.
Stéphane Séjourné, 38, an MEP and secretary general of the ruling party (now called Renaissance), is in a civil union with Gabriel Attal. Up until 2021, Séjourné served as one of Macron’s political advisors.
Gabriel Attal’s political stance seems to have moved from the center-left to the center-right during the last ten years. In response to strikes by employees of the national railway firm, SNCF, in 2018, he declared that France needed to “get out of the strike culture” and called students who were opposing educational reforms “selfish bobos (bourgeois Bohemians)”