Marie-France Stirbois (born Marie-France Charles on 11 November 1944 in Paris,died 17 April 2006 in Nice of cancer) was a French National Front politician,representing Dreux from 1989 to 1993,and a Member of the European Parliament from 1994 to 1999 and from 2003 to 2004.
An old militant of the National Front,Marie-France Stirbois marked French political life by achieving (with her husband Jean-Pierre Stirbois) the first electoral success of the French National Front in 1983 in Dreux. Between 1989 and 1993,she was the only National Front member to sit on the National Assembly,after the Yann Piat camp had defected.
Youngest of four daughters in the Charles family,Marie-France's father was manager of a refrigeration warehouse and canning factory. Her mother was a housewife. Both were ardent Gaullists until 1962. Her mother received the Croix de Guerre with palms,having been imprisoned by the Germans,and her two sisters were pillars of the resistance until the end of the war. In the 1950s,the Charles family moved to Dreux in Eure-et-Loir.
As a qualified English teacher,she married the next year and taught English for seven years at Colombes. She then stopped working to raise her two children.
A political couple
Like her husband,she argued in the first "Solidarity" movement of the extreme right for the Mouvement jeune révolution ((in French) "Young Revolutionary Movement"),which rejected totalitarian Marxism and international capitalism. When the Stirbois couple joined the National Front in 1977,five years after its establishment,each embraced militant political activism. She became co-director of the printing press that her husband created to support their political activities in Dreux.
Unlike her husband,Marie-France made her debut in the 1978 legislative elections in Paris. Her first electoral success was in the cantonales of 1982,with 10% of the vote,and then she stood for Nanterre in hauts de Seine in 1985. Her first national bid for Dreux was in 1986,while three years earlier,her husband became National Front Deputy Mayor thanks to an electoral alliance.
The success of "Widow Stirbois"
Jean-Pierre died in a road accident in autumn 1988. Marie-France focused on local politics and represented the National Front in Dreux,first as a city councillor,then at elections in March 1989. She became a member at Eure-et-Loir in December that year after an election with 60% voter turnout,losing the mandate in March 1993. For four years she was the only National Front representative in the National Assembly.
In March 1992 she was elected conseillère générale ((in French) "General Counsel") and then in June 1994,Member of the European Parliament and regional advisor. She remained in the European Parliament until 1999.
After several failed attempts to become Mayor of Dreux,she moved to Nice,where she was elected City Councillor in 2001.
In 2003,she took Jean-Marie Le Pen's seat after his revocation of mandate as an MEP. In 2004 she was elected Regional Councillor of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur,and she died in 2006.
Dissent in the National Front
Marie-France was twice sanctioned by National Front institutions and suspended from her duties in the party's political bureau.
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