François-Xavier Bellamy

French politician (born 1985)

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François-Xavier Bellamy ( French: [fʁɑ̃swa ɡzavje belami] ; born 11 October 1985) is a French essayist, high-school teacher and politician.
Since 2023, he has been LR's executive vice president under Éric Ciotti and Bruno Retailleau.
Bellamy was educated at the École Sainte-Marie des Bourdonnais, a private school in Versailles.
He earned the agrégation in philosophy in 2008.
In 2009, he taught at the Lycée Auguste Renoir in Asnières-sur-Seine, the Lycée Louis Bascan in Rambouillet and the Lycée hôtelier in Guyancourt.

François-Xavier Bellamy (French: [fʁɑ̃swa ɡzavje belami]; born 11 October 1985) is a French essayist, high-school teacher and politician. He is a former Deputy Mayor of Versailles (2008–2019) and is now a Member of the European Parliament (2019–present), having led The Republicans (LR) list in the 2019 and 2024 election.

Since 2023, he has been LR's executive vice president under Éric Ciotti and Bruno Retailleau.

Early life and education

François-Xavier Bellamy was born in 1985 in Paris.

Bellamy was educated at the École Sainte-Marie des Bourdonnais, a private school in Versailles. After two-years preparatory classes (A/L) in the Lycée Henri-IV, he was admitted to École normale supérieure in 2005. He earned the agrégation in philosophy in 2008.

Early career

Bellamy taught philosophy at the Lycée Sainte-Geneviève and the Lycée Notre-Dame de Grandchamp in Versailles in 2008. In 2009, he taught at the Lycée Auguste Renoir in Asnières-sur-Seine, the Lycée Louis Bascan in Rambouillet and the Lycée hôtelier in Guyancourt. Since 2011, he has been teaching philosophy and art history for the preparatory classes at the Lycée Blomet in Paris.

Bellamy is the author of four books. He won the Prix d'Aumale from the Académie Française in 2014 for his first book, Les déshérités ou l'urgence de transmettre. In this essay, he analyses the failure of the French educational system as the result of an ideology that refuses the transmission of culture, thus creating disinherited students.