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 [fr].^[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]

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