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.
Regional advisor of the centre (translator's note:meaning "central geographic region",not "centre" on the left wing-right wing axis) from 1986 to 2004.
Jean Louis Marie Le Pen, known as Jean-Marie Le Pen, is a French politician who served as president of the far-right National Front from 1972 to 2011 and Honorary President of the same party from 2011 to 2015.
The National Rally, known as the National Front from 1972 to 2018, is a French far-right political party, described as right-wing populist and nationalist. It is the single largest parliamentary opposition party in the National Assembly since 2022. Its candidate was defeated in the second round in the 2002, 2017 and 2022 presidential elections. It opposes immigration, advocating significant cuts to legal immigration, protection of French identity, and stricter control of illegal immigration. The party advocates a "more balanced" and "independent" French foreign policy, opposing French military intervention in Africa while supporting France leaving NATO's integrated command. It also supports reform of the European Union (EU) and its related organisations as well as economic interventionism, protectionism, and zero tolerance for breaches of law and order.
Eure-et-Loir is a French department, named after the Eure and Loir rivers. It is located in the region of Centre-Val de Loire. In 2019, Eure-et-Loir had a population of 431,575.
The National Republican Movement is a French nationalist political party, created by Bruno Mégret with former Club de l'Horloge members Yvan Blot and Jean-Yves Le Gallou, as a split from Jean-Marie Le Pen's National Front on 24 January 1999.
Bruno Mégret is a French former nationalist politician. He was the leader of the Mouvement National Républicain political party, but retired in 2008 from all political action.
Dreux is a commune in the Eure-et-Loir department in northern France.
Jean-Louis Marie Borloo is a French politician who served as president of the Union of Democrats and Independents (UDI) from 2012 to 2014. He also was Minister of the Economy, Finance and Employment in 2007 and Minister of Ecology, Energy, Sustainable Development and the Sea from 2007 until 2010 under President Nicolas Sarkozy.
Christian Paul Gilbert Estrosi is a French sportsman and politician and the Mayor of Nice since 2017, previously holding the office from 2008 to 2016. A former professional motorcyclist, he served as a government minister under Presidents Jacques Chirac and Nicolas Sarkozy. Estrosi also served as President of the Regional Council of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur from 2015 to 2017 and First Deputy Mayor of Nice from 2016 until 2017. He is a former member of The Republicans, which he left in 2021 to join Horizons.
The far-right tradition in France finds its origins in the Third Republic with Boulangism and the Dreyfus affair. In the 1880s, General Georges Boulanger, called "General Revenge", championed demands for military revenge against Imperial Germany as retribution for the defeat and fall of the Second French Empire during the Franco-Prussian War (1870–71). This stance, known as revanchism, began to exert a strong influence on French nationalism. Soon thereafter, the Dreyfus affair provided one of the political division lines of France. French nationalism, which had been largely associated with left-wing and Republican ideologies before the Dreyfus affair, turned after that into a main trait of the right-wing and, moreover, of the far right. A new right emerged, and nationalism was reappropriated by the far-right who turned it into a form of ethnic nationalism, blended with anti-Semitism, xenophobia, anti-Protestantism and anti-Masonry. The Action française (AF), first founded as a journal and later a political organization, was the matrix of a new type of counter-revolutionary right-wing, which continues to exist today. During the interwar period, the Action française and its youth militia, the Camelots du Roi, were very active. Far right leagues organized riots.
European Parliament elections were held in France on 12 June 1994. Six lists were able to win seats: an alliance of the centre-right Union for French Democracy and the Gaullist Rally for the Republic, the Socialist Party, the Left Radical Party, the French Communist Party, the National Front and Philippe de Villiers' eurosceptic right-wing dissident UDF list, which formed the Majorité pour l'autre Europe. 53.5% of the French population turned out on election day, actually an improvement on the last election in 1989. The Greens, who were weakened by an Ecology Generation list led by Brice Lalonde and also suffering from internal divisions between the party's left and the right, lost all 9 seats won in 1989. Arlette Laguiller's Trotskyst Workers' Struggle (2.27%), Jean-Pierre Chevènement's left-wing eurosceptic Citizens' Movement (2.54%), the L'Europe commence à Sarajevo List (1.57%) and the agrarian populist Hunting, Fishing, Nature, Traditions (3.96%) were among the notable lists which did not pass the 5% threshold.
The French municipal elections of 2008 were held on 9 and 16 March to elect the municipal councils of France's 36,782 communes. The first task of each newly constituted municipal council was to elect a mayor.
Jean-Pierre Stirbois was a French far-right politician. Elected deputy mayor in 1983 of Dreux, a city of around 30,000 inhabitants at the time, he was one of the main architects, along with his wife Marie-France Stirbois, of the first electoral breakthrough of the National Front.
Jean-François de Lacroix or Delacroix was a French politician and member of the Committee of Public Safety. He was known as "Lacroix of Eure-et-Loir" and was guillotined in 1794.
Marion Jeanne Caroline Maréchal, known as Marion Maréchal-Le Pen from 2010 to 2018, is a French far-right politician and member of the European Parliament. She is part of the Le Pen family, as the granddaughter of National Front founder Jean-Marie Le Pen and niece of its later leader Marine Le Pen.
Stéphane Ravier is a French politician and former civil servant who has represented the Bouches-du-Rhône department in the Senate since 2014. A former member of the National Rally who joined Reconquête in 2022, he previously held a seat in the Regional Council of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur from 2010 to 2016.
Louis Victor Dubois was a French politician.
Le Pen is a prominent political family of France. Le Pen is a Breton surname meaning "the head", "the chief" or "the peninsula". The family has led the National Rally party since its inception in 1972, first under Jean-Marie Le Pen (1972–2011) and subsequently under his daughter Marine Le Pen (2011–2022).
The Republican and Socialist Left is a socialist political party in France. It was founded on 3 February 2019 after the merger of the Alternative for a Republican, Ecologist and Socialist Program (APRÉS) and the Citizen and Republican Movement (MRC) of Jean-Luc Laurent and Jean-Pierre Chevènement. APRÉS had been founded in October 2018 by Emmanuel Maurel and Marie-Noëlle Lienemann after their departure from the Socialist Party and was close to La France Insoumise.
Jean-Pierre Gorges (born on 3 August 1953 in Gonesse, is a French politician. He has been mayor of Chartres and president of the Chartres Métropole agglomeration community since 2001. He was deputy for the first constituency of Eure-et-Loir from 2002 to 2017.
Martine Daugreilh is a French politician and essayist. She was Member of Parliament for Alpes-Maritimes's 2nd constituency from 1988 to 1933 and was the first woman elected MP in Nice. Most recently she was responsible for the Mediterranean University Centre.
This page is based on this Wikipedia article Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply. Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.
