A great uncle in the church offered to pay his fees if he entered the minor seminary to become a priest, but Bouët was not a believer and wanted to become a teacher.
[1] After leaving school Bouët was assigned to Trélazé and then Saumur, where he stayed for two years before being called up for military service.
He met Gabrielle Dechezelles, an accountant in a wholesale grocery, and helped her prepare for her Brevet élémentaire examination.
[2] His revolutionary syndicalist views did not prevent Bouet from joining the socialist party, where he often defended "Hervéiste" concepts.
[3] In 1908 the Maine-et-Loire teachers' syndicate, led by Louis Bouët, advocated the organization of joint conferences of civil servants and workers.
Bouët revived the revolutionary spirit of the Federation of Teachers' Unions when he launched the pedagogical review L'Ecole Emancipée (The Emancipated School) in 1910.
[1] On 15 August 1915 a pacifist resolution was presented at the CGT's national congress at the initiative of Alphonse Merrheim and Albert Bourderon, signed by several militants of the federation of teachers' unions including Bouet, Fernand Loriot, Louis Lafosse, Marie Guillot, Marie Mayoux, Marthe Bigot and Hélène Brion.
[1] Bouet privately expressed doubts about the legitimacy of the Communist party given the evolution of Russia under Stalin, and devoted himself to editing l'École Émancipée.
After the Liberation of France in 1944 he helped to relaunch l'École Émancipée, and remained involved with the journal for the rest of his life.