One of the youngest deputies of the mandate
The deputy of Val-de-Marne Louis Boyard (La France insoumise, LFI), born on August 26, 2000, narrowly missed the record for precocity in the National Assembly, blown by Tematai Le Gayic, elected (Democratic and Republican Left ) in French Polynesia, born in October of the same year. The two youngest were responsible, on June 28, for ensuring the smooth running of the vote for the presidency of the Assembly. Parade in front of them all the deputies.
An image of the ballot has looped on social networks: Louis Boyard refusing to shake hands with Philippe Ballard, spokesperson for the National Rally (RN). Before making known, in front of the microphones, the importance of “barrier gestures” against the far right. Outraged reactions to the RN. In fact, the young deputy shook hands with more than twenty elected Lepenists. The idea only came to him towards the end of the vote, he explained.
A committed high school student
Son of a railway worker and an English employee at Samsung, Louis Boyard was born in Vendée. He participated in the blocking of his high school, in Villeneuve-le-Roi (Val-de-Marne), after the revelation of the presence of asbestos in the premises. He then challenges MP Laurent Saint-Martin (LRM), whom he beat on June 19. In 2018, he took over the presidency of the National High School Union, criticizing Parcoursup and the reform of the baccalaureate. He parades with the “yellow vests”, which earned him a foot injury during Act XII.
During the successive confinements, he multiplies the interventions on student precariousness. “I’m like a lot of people, school wasn’t something I liked, he will say, on the set of “Touche pas à mon poste” (“TPMP”), the flagship program of Cyril Hanouna. Since I was pissing off in the classroom, I blocked high school to not go. » In law at Panthéon-Assas, he dreamed for a time of becoming a criminal lawyer.
A columnist accustomed to clashes
After winning his napkin ring at the “Grandes Gueules”, on RMC, where he mocks the reactionary columnists and asks the host Denis Brogniart to autograph his shisha for him, Louis Boyard joins, at the end of the summer of 2021, the “TPMP” team. On C8, he battles with the megalomaniac swindler Marco Mouly or the retired policeman Bruno Pomart. Willingly controversial, he confides on the set that he has already sold drugs: “I’m not going to go into details, but at one point I was in trouble, I was offered the lease, I did it. » And to add that he had no ” no choice ” to pay for his studies. A subject that he no longer wishes to address, considering that he has “already said everything”.
A representative of the “Mélenchon generation”
Outraged Wretched, of Victor Hugo, are “favorite novel”Louis Boyard cites among his references A brief history of equality, of the economist Thomas Piketty – a work that he sometimes renames, in a slip, “the history of inequality”. Passionate about the French Revolution – he cites Saint-Just and Robespierre as “inspiring figures” –, the deputy “immersed in Jacobins !, the very good book by Alexis Corbière, to visit this National Assembly”. The young elected recognizes himself in the “Melenchon generation” : “Linking the questions of ecology, employment, the VIe République, the relationship, too, to societal issues… Yes, it is an ideological mentor”he explained about the leader of LFI on the set of “Four Truths”, on France 2 after his election.