[1] 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.

'Jean Louvet defends Walloon culture and identity while believing in a certain utopist utopia'.

[2] Media related to Jean Louvet at Wikimedia Commons