Christophe Thivrier
French politician
Christophe Thivrier (16 May 1841 – 8 August 1895) was a French politician of working class origins who was the first Socialist mayor in France, and deputy of Allier from 1889 to 1895.
At this time the industrialists of France were using dismissals and other forms of repression in an attempt to stamp out socialism, and workers were responding with strikes.
Thivrier was uncompromising in his socialist principles, and was known as the "deputé en blouse" for wearing his blue worker's smock in the Assembly to the outrage of the bourgeois members.
Early years 1841–74
Christophe Thivrier (or Tivrier, known as Christou) was born on 16 May 1841 in Durdat-Larequille, Allier, the youngest of four children.
His parents were Jean Gilbert Thivrier (1809–1904) and Marie Anne Mansier (1799–1852).
His father was from Néris-les-Bains, and worked as a farm laborer, in construction and in the mines.
Christophe had to leave school and start work at an early age.
He became a miner.
When he was 28 he became a small building contractor, and later became a wine merchant.
He was one of the founders of the labour movement in Allier.
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