Political scientist Laurent Bouvet, co-founder of Printemps Républicain, a movement created in 2016 to advocate a strict vision of secularism, died on Saturday at the age of 53 following a long illness, his entourage confirmed to AFP.

His wife, who could not be reached, announced her husband's death on her Facebook page on Saturday afternoon.

A member of Laurent Bouvet's entourage, wishing to remain anonymous, confirmed this death to AFP.

He recalled that the Republican Spring movement had been created "largely at the initiative of Laurent, with the aim of bringing to the public space a republican, secular and universalist left discourse, at a time deemed necessary".

Supporter of a firm line on secularism

The Minister of Education, Jean-Michel Blanquer, wrote on Twitter: “Farewell Laurent Bouvet.

He embodied courage in his thought as in his life.

He defended what we have most precious in common: the Republic and therefore freedom, humanism, universalism ”.

Professor of political science and controversial co-founder of Printemps Républicain, Laurent Bouvet, was in favor of a firm line on secularism.

Long an activist in the Socialist Party, he had moved away from it to found in 2016 this movement of the Republican Spring, with in particular the interministerial delegate for the fight against racism and anti-Semitism Gilles Clavreul.

The movement, often accused of identity, has frequently accused the left of being too conciliatory with Islamism.

He defined "cultural insecurity"

Laurent Bouvet had signed numerous books on identity and cultural insecurity.

He defined this concept of "cultural insecurity" as "the expression of a concern, a fear, even a fear, vis-à-vis what one lives, sees and perceives and feels, here and now, at home, upheavals of the order of the world, changes in society, of what can be at the same time near or far, familiar or foreign to us ”, wrote the daily newspaper

Le Monde

on Saturday

.

Manuel Valls paid tribute on Twitter to his "friend" by saying "tonight, I cry him".

"Laurent will miss me, his personality, his courage, his thought, his writings will miss me and our country, the left, mine, the Republicans", wrote the former Prime Minister.

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