[1] Gaëtan Dussausaye grew up in Plessis-Pâté, with a mother who worked as a nurse, a father who was marketing director for a large French company, two brothers and one sister.

[2] After a brief involvement with a group dedicated to the memory of Charles de Gaulle,[5] Dussausaye joined the National Front in 2011.

[2] On October 8, 2014, Marine Le Pen named him President of the Front national de la jeunesse.

"[2] At the FN conference in November 2014, he joined the central committee (nominated by Marine Le Pen) and the political office.

[2] Between 2014 and 2015, Dussausaye said that he was inspired by Aristotle, Rousseau, Spinoza, Boris Vian, Orwell and Marx – in regards to the latter he said: "not out of adhesion, but to have an argument against the left.