Édouard Louis (born Eddy Bellegueule; 30 October 1992) is a French writer and sociologist. Biography. 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). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89douard_Louis