Gilbert Chabroux, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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French politician
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Place of Birth: Berneuil, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France
About Gilbert Chabroux
- Gilbert Chabroux (27 December 1933 – 1 December 2017) was a French politician. Chabroux was a native of Haute-Vienne, born on 27 December 1933.
- 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.Chabroux became a member of the Young Socialist Movement in 1955, and joined the Villeurbanne chapter of the French Section of the Workers' International three years later.
- In 1965, he was elected to the Villeurbanne municipal council as an ally of mayor Étienne Gagnaire.
- Chabroux formally joined the Socialist Party in the 1970s.
- Chabroux was named deputy mayor under Charles Hernu in 1977, whom he succeeded as mayor in 1990, upon Hernu's death.
- His 1997 reelection to the mayoralty was legally challenged, and suspended for a year.
- 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 RhĂ´ne in 1995.
- Chabroux left the Senate in 2004.
- He died in Villeurbanne on 1 December 2017, at the age of 83.
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