Gilbert Chabroux | |
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Mayor of Villeurbanne | |
In office 1990–2001 | |
Preceded by | Charles Hernu |
Succeeded by | Jean-Paul Bret |
Member of the French Senate for Rhône | |
In office 1995–2004 | |
Personal details | |
Born | Berneuil, France | 27 December 1933
Died | 1 December 2017 Villeurbanne, France | (aged 83)
Political party | Socialist Party |
Gilbert Chabroux (27 December 1933 – 1 December 2017) was a French politician.
Chabroux was a native of Haute-Vienne, born on 27 December 1933. [1] He attended the Ecole Normale d'Instructors in Limoges and later attended the École Normale Supérieure de l'Enseignement Technique. Chabroux then taught at the ENNA Lyon-Villeurbanne after deployment of 28 months during the Algerian War. [1] [2]
Chabroux became a member of the Young Socialist Movement in 1955, [1] [2] and joined the Villeurbanne chapter of the French Section of the Workers' International three years later. [2] In 1965, he was elected to the Villeurbanne municipal council as an ally of mayor Étienne Gagnaire . [2] Chabroux formally joined the Socialist Party in the 1970s. [3] Chabroux was named deputy mayor under Charles Hernu in 1977, whom he succeeded as mayor in 1990, upon Hernu's death. [2] His 1997 reelection to the mayoralty was legally challenged, [4] and suspended for a year. [1] Chabroux was eventually allowed to retain the office, until he stepped down in 2001 to focus on his role in the Senate in which he had been seated as a representative of Rhône in 1995. Chabroux left the Senate in 2004. [2] He died in Villeurbanne on 1 December 2017, at the age of 83. [5]