Gabriel Attal, France’s youngest prime minister and first openly gay government leader, has risen to the top of government in record time. Attal, famous for his ability to think on his feet, is reportedly the most popular politician in the town. He previously held the position of Minister of Education.
Gabriel Attal was raised by a half-French father and an Orthodox Christian mother.
Gabriel Attal was born in 1989 to Yves Attal and Marie de Couriss in Paris, France. His father was of Tunisian Jewish ethnicity and his mother was descended from Orthodox Christians from Odessa, Ukraine. Attal and his three younger sisters enjoyed a privileged Parisian upbringing.
He revealed it in an interview in TF1 who was seven years old when Yves and Marie divorced. “I went through difficult times like many families go through. My parents got divorced, they separated when I was 7 years old. And it was a difficult divorce. But I was lucky to have a loving family around me and I would never lack for anything.”
Yves Attal, film producer and lawyer, died in 2015. Attal said the news of liberation outlet that his father warned him that he would always suffer anti-Semitism: “My father told me: ‘You may be Orthodox but you will feel Jewish all your life, mainly because you will suffer anti-Semitism because of your name.’”
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