In the letter, which was published on the front page of Le Monde, and was later reprinted in English by the Los Angeles Review of Books, Louis and Lagasnerie denounce the legitimization of right-wing agendas in public discourse and establish principles by which leftist intellectuals should reengage in public debate. In September 2015, Édouard Louis wrote an open letter, "Manifesto for an Intellectual and Political Counteroffensive", together with philosopher Geoffroy de Lagasnerie. It was a bestseller in France and has been translated into more than 20 languages. The book also generated debate and controversy over social perception of the working class. The book was the subject of extensive media attention and was hailed for its literary merit and compelling story. In 2014 he published En finir avec Eddy Bellegueule, an autobiographical novel. L'insoumission en héritage, which analyses the influence of Pierre Bourdieu on critical thinking and political emancipation. The same year, he edited the collective work, Pierre Bourdieu. In 2013, he officially changed his name to Édouard Louis. In 2011, he was admitted to two of the most prestigious institutions of higher learning in France, the École Normale Supérieure and to the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences in Paris. He is the first in his family to attend university. The poverty, racism, alcoholism and his homosexuality which he dealt with in his family during his childhood would become the subject of his literary work.
His mother found occasional work bathing the elderly. Louis grew up in a poor family supported by government welfare: his father was a factory worker for a decade until "One day at work, a storage container fell on him and crushed his back, leaving him bedridden, on morphine for the pain" and unable to work. Édouard Louis, born Eddy Bellegueule was born and raised in the town of Hallencourt in northern France, which is the setting of his first novel, the autobiographical En finir avec Eddy Bellegueule (2014 published in English in 2018 as The End of Eddy).
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