1. Gabriel Attal became the Junior Minister to the Minister of National Education and Youth in 2018, which made him the youngest person to serve in the Government of France; the Spokesperson of the Government in 2020; the Minister of Public Action and Accounts in 2022; and the Minister of National Education and Youth in 2023.
Gabriel Attal led the ruling Ensemble coalition into the 2024 legislative election which resulted in another hung parliament and electoral defeat for the government.
Gabriel Attal was born on 16 March 1989 in Clamart, Ile-de-France.
Gabriel Attal grew up in the 13th and 14th arrondissements of Paris with three sisters.
Gabriel Attal's father, Yves Attal, was a lawyer and film producer; his mother, Marie de Couriss, worked as an employee of a film production company.
Gabriel Attal's father was Jewish and his mother a Russian Orthodox Christian; Attal was raised in his mother's Orthodox Christian faith.
Gabriel Attal attended the Ecole alsacienne, an exclusive private school in the 6th arrondissement of Paris.
Gabriel Attal obtained a Baccalaureat with a "Mention Tres Bien" in 2007.
Gabriel Attal went on to study law at Pantheon-Assas University from 2008 to 2011, and earned a Master of Public Affairs from Sciences Po in 2012.
Gabriel Attal spent a year working with Eric de Chassey, director of the French Academy in Rome.
Gabriel Attal was elected as one of the four Socialist Party councillors of Vanves and took over the lead of the opposition, after the resignation of the head of the socialist list.
Gabriel Attal was elected to the French National Assembly on 18 June 2017, representing the Hauts-de-Seine's 10th constituency, winning out over the designated successor of Andre Santini.
Gabriel Attal was quickly considered one of the most talented new members of parliament, with Amelie de Montchalin.
In December 2017, Gabriel Attal was appointed rapporteur on a bill on access to higher education.
On 16 October 2018, Gabriel Attal was appointed Secretaire d'Etat to the Minister of National Education and Youth Jean-Michel Blanquer.
Gabriel Attal became Minister of Public Action and Accounts in the government of Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne in May 2022.
In July 2023, Gabriel Attal was appointed minister of national education and youth in the 2023 French government reshuffle.
At the beginning of his tenure as prime minister, Gabriel Attal was seen as one of the most popular politicians in France.
On 16 January 2024, Gabriel Attal announced that, like Elisabeth Borne before him, he would not be seeking a vote of confidence in the National Assembly as implicitly allowed in the French Constitution.
Gabriel Attal said that the priority was to prevent NR from gaining an absolute majority in the National Assembly and asked Ensemble candidates in third place against NR in their constituencies to withdraw from the second round of voting.
Gabriel Attal offered his resignation to the president the following morning, only for it to be refused by Macron, who asked him to stay on for the time being in order to maintain the stability of the country.
On 13 July 2024, Gabriel Attal was elected unopposed as leader of the Renaissance Party in the National Assembly with the support of 84 of the 98 Renaissance members.
In 2018, Gabriel Attal was outed on Twitter by his former Ecole alsacienne classmate Juan Branco.
Gabriel Attal lived in a civil union with Stephane Sejourne at the time.
Gabriel Attal said in a TV interview that he had been subjected to homophobic bullying at school.
Gabriel Attal has described being the target of homophobic and antisemitic hate speech on social media as a politician.
Gabriel Attal's father was of Tunisian Jewish and Alsatian Jewish descent.
Gabriel Attal's mother is of French and Greek-Russian ancestry from Odesa, her grandfather having arrived in France as a White Russian emigre.