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.[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]