Aurélie Filippetti (born June 17, 1973, in Villerupt) is a French politician and novelist of Italian descent. Her family originates from Gualdo, Umbria.[1]
Her first novel Les derniers jours de la classe Ouvrière (The Lasts Days of the Working Class), published by Stock in 2003, has been translated into several languages. In 2003, Filippetti wrote the script for the theatre production Fragments d'humanité. She was a delegate of the French Greens for the Paris municipality and acted as the technical adviser for the Minister of the Environment, Yves Cochet, from 2001 to 2002.
In 2008, Filippetti was groped by the alleged rapist Dominique Strauss-Kahn and stated she would “forever make sure” she was never “alone in a room with him.” [2]
Currently she is member of the National Assembly of France, representing the Moselle département, and is a member of the Socialist Party.
She is an alumnus of the elite École normale supérieure de Fontenay–Saint-Cloud, she received an agrégation in Classic Literature.
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