Background
He was born in Moustier-sur-Sambre, the son of a miner, and lived a working-class childhood.
He was born in Moustier-sur-Sambre, the son of a miner, and lived a working-class childhood.
Three years in the army paid for his studies in Romance philology, and he spent time in academia, but turned to the theater to give expression to his left-wing politics and founded a "proletarian theater". His work is influenced by Sartre and Brecht, by his Walloon roots and one of the most important event of the present-day Wallonia, the 1960-1961 Winter General Strike. Foreign some years, political considerations kept his work out of Wallonia and he is better known in France.
"Jean Louvet defends Walloon culture and identity while believing in a certain utopist utopia".