Who is France's first openly gay PM? Here are top things about Gabriel Attal

economictimes.indiatimes.com:

Gabriel Attal on Tuesday was appointed as France's youngest-ever and first openly gay Prime Minister by President Emmanuel Macron.
Attal rose to prominence as the government spokesman and education minister. During his tenure, he enacted a controversial ban on the wearing of the Abaya in French public schools and has worked on raising awareness of bullying in schools.

Here are top things you should know about Attal:

• Aged 34, Gabriel Attal is France's youngest post-war prime minister, a record previously held by the leftist Laurent Fabius, who was 37 when he was named prime minister by Francois Mitterrand in 1984.

• Attal is France's first openly gay prime minister. Back in 2018, the new Prime Minister was outed by an old school associate when he was named a junior minister during Macron's first mandate. When Attal was outed, he was in a relationship with Stephane Sejourne, Macron's former political adviser.
• Attal garnered major attention when he banned students from wearing the abaya, a loose-fitting garment from the shoulders to the feet worn by Muslim women.

• Attal joined the Socialist Party when he was 17. He became a household name in French politics after being named government spokesman during the pandemic. Entering the political arena at such a young age, he went onto be the junior minister in the finance ministry and then education minister in 2023, making a name for himself as one of Macron's savviest cabinet ministers and a smooth communicator.
• Attal is the son of a film producer and grew up in Paris and went to the Ecole Alsacienne, a private school in the heart of the capital.

• Attal in a TV show had recently revealed that he was bullied in