French professor of philosophy, succeeding Alain Finkelkraut in the chair at Polytechnique de Paris in 2014. Foessel was a young communist political activist, then held a position teaching philosophy at Université de Bourgogne and at Institut catholique de Paris.
Born: Thu Oct 24 1974 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) in Thionville, France