| Gilbert Chabroux | |
| Office: | Mayor of Villeurbanne |
| Term Start: | 1990 |
| Term End: | 2001 |
| Predecessor: | Charles Hernu |
| Successor: | Jean-Paul Bret |
| Office2: | Member of the French Senate for Rhône |
| Term Start2: | 1995 |
| Term End2: | 2004 |
| Birth Date: | 27 December 1933 |
| Birth Place: | Berneuil, France |
| Death Place: | Villeurbanne, France |
| Nationality: | French |
| Party: | Socialist Party |
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.[1]
Chabroux became a member of the Young Socialist Movement in 1955,[1] and joined the Villeurbanne chapter of the French Section of the Workers' International three years later.[1] In 1965, he was elected to the Villeurbanne municipal council as an ally of mayor .[1] Chabroux formally joined the Socialist Party in the 1970s.[2] Chabroux was named deputy mayor under Charles Hernu in 1977, whom he succeeded as mayor in 1990, upon Hernu's death.[1] His 1997 reelection to the mayoralty was legally challenged,[3] and suspended for a year.[4] 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.[1] He died in Villeurbanne on 1 December 2017, at the age of 83.[5]