François-Xavier Bellamy

François-Xavier Bellamy
Executive Vice president of The Republicans
Incumbent
Assumed office 18 February 2023
President	Éric Ciotti
Preceded by	Aurélien Pradié
Member of the European Parliament
Incumbent
Assumed office 2 July 2019
Parliamentary group	EPP
Constituency	France
Member of the Municipal council of Versailles
In office 21 March 2008 – 28 June 2020
Mayor	François de Mazières
Personal details
Born	(1985-10-11) 11 October 1985 (age 38) Paris, France
Political party	The Republicans (since 2019)
Education	Lycée Henri-IV
Alma mater	École normale supérieure Paris-Sorbonne University University of Cambridge

François-Xavier Bellamy (French pronunciation: [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 now a Member of the European Parliament (2019–present), having led The Republicans (LR) list in the 2019 election. Since 2023, he has been The Republicans executive vice president.

Early life and education

François-Xavier Bellamy was born in 1985 in Paris.^[1][2]

Bellamy was educated at the École Sainte-Marie des Bourdonnais, a private school in Versailles.^[3] After two-years preparatory classes (A/L) in the Lycée Henri-IV, he got into the École normale supérieure, from which he graduated in 2005.^[2] He earned the agrégation in philosophy in 2008.^[2]

Early career

Bellamy taught philosophy at the Lycée Sainte-Geneviève and the Lycée Notre-Dame de Grandchamp in Versailles in 2008.^[2] 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.^[2] Since 2011, he has been teaching philosophy and art history for the preparatory classes at the Lycée Blomet in Paris.^[2]

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.^[4] In this essay, he analyses the failure of French educational system as the result of an ideology that refuses the transmission of culture, thus creating disinherited.

Political career

Career in local politics

Bellamy has been deputy mayor in Versailles for employment, youth and higher education.^[2] He was a candidate for the National Assembly elections in Yvelines's 1st constituency in 2017, invested by The Republicans, but he lost in the second round against the candidate of En Marche!, Didier Baichère with 48.9% vs 51.1% of the votes.^[5]

Member of the European Parliament, 2018–present

Since May 2019, Bellamy has been a Member of the European Parliament for the EPP. In parliament, he is a member of the Committee on Fisheries (PECH) and the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE).

In addition to his committee assignments, Bellamy is part of the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China.^[6]

Ahead of the Republicans' 2022 convention, Bellamy endorsed Bruno Retailleau as the party's chairman.^[7]

Political positions

In a joint letter initiated by Norbert Röttgen and Anthony Gonzalez ahead of the 47th G7 summit in 2021, Bellamy joined some 70 legislators from Europe and the US in calling upon their leaders to take a tough stance on China and to "avoid becoming dependent" on the country for technology including artificial intelligence and 5G.^[8]

Works

• Bellamy, Francois-Xavier (2018). Demeurer. Paris: Grasset. ISBN 978-2246815587.
• Bellamy, François-Xavier (2014). Les déshérités ou l'urgence de transmettre. Paris: Plon. ISBN 9782259223430. OCLC 898168580.
• Bellamy, François-Xavier (2016). A la jeunesse : De Saint-Exupéry à Steve Jobs, de grandes voix appellent à vivre intensément. Paris: Librio. ISBN 9782290120613.
• Bellamy, Francois-Xavier (2016). Éduquer avec Rousseau : conférence à destination des parlementaires prononcée le 20 mai 2015. Paris: SOS Éducation. ISBN 9791093981123. OCLC 958253810.

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