10 Facts About Vincent Peillon

Vincent Peillon is a longstanding French politician and, from 2014 until 2019, served as a Member of the European Parliament for North West France.

Vincent Peillon worked one year at Henri Emmanuelli staff at the Assemblee nationale and resumed his teaching between 1993 and 1997.

Vincent Peillon completed graduate studies at Pantheon-Sorbonne University, graduating with a PhD in Philosophy in 1992.

Vincent Peillon was Senior Research Fellow at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique between 2002 and 2004, working on ante-marxist socialism.

Vincent Peillon served as a Member of the National Assembly from 1997 until 2002.

Vincent Peillon served as the Socialist Party's national spokesman.

In 2007, Vincent Peillon joined Segolene Royal's campaign team as a spokesperson, alongside Najat Vallaud-Belkacem and Montebourg.

Vincent Peillon promised to recruit 40 000 new teachers in 2013.

Ahead of the Socialist Party's 2012 convention in Toulouse, Vincent Peillon publicly endorsed Harlem Desir as candidate to succeed Martine Aubry at the party's leadership.

Amid his government's plans for a legalization of same-sex marriage in 2013, Vincent Peillon caused a national debate when he called on Catholic schools, which teach about one-fifth of all pupils in France, to stay neutral in the debate.