Gauthier Bouchet
Gauthier Bouchet | |
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| File:GB7.jpg Gauthier Bouchet at a meeting of Jean-Marie Le Pen near Nantes, September 20th, 2014 | |
| Municipal councillor of Saint-Nazaire | |
| Assumed office March 30, 2014 | |
| District councillor of Saint-Nazaire | |
| Assumed office November 14, 2014 | |
| Communautary councillor at CARENE | |
| Assumed office March 31, 2015 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Gauthier Moïse André Bouchet November 15, 1987 Nantes, Loire-Atlantique, France |
| Nationality |  French |
| Political party | Front national (FN) |
| Parents | Christian Bouchet Ghislaine Bouchet |
| Residence | Saint-Nazaire |
| Alma mater | Nantes University (master) |
| Occupation | Politician |
Gauthier Moïse André Bouchet (born November 15, 1987 in Nantes, France), is a French politician, member of the Front national (National Front, FN) nationalist party. He is the son of Christian Bouchet, a figure of French nationalism since the 1980s (Troisième Voie, Lutte du peuple...).
In March 2014, he was elected as municipal councillor of Saint-Nazaire, on the list of Jean-Claude Blanchard, obtaining 13.53% of the votes, then, district councillor of Saint-Nazaire in November 2014. Since 2015, he has also represented its party as the single FN councillor within the Communauté d'agglomération de la région nazairienne et de l'Estuaire (CARENE - Nazairian region and Estuary agglomeration community).
Before starting his career in Saint-Nazaire, Gauthier Bouchet was one of the national leaders of FNJ (FN youth organization) where he participated in the Internet strategy, from 2010 to 2012.
Assistant to FN candidate Pascal Gannat during the campaign for regional elections of 2015 in the Pays de la Loire, he was not a candidate himself. He was later recruited at the end of the campaign as a group assistant within the conseil régional.
Since its launch in 2014, he has been one of the contributors to the Forum du patriotisme social (Social Patriotism Forum), for which he provides regular historical articles, mainly on the history of French republican ideas.
Family background
By his paternal great-grandmother, Berthe Dezoteux (1886-1969), Gauthier Bouchet is related to Pierre Marie Felicité Dezoteux (1755-1812), Baron of Taizé, sub-lieutenant in the French Cavalry Regiment of Royal-Navarre, captain during the American War of Independence, a revolutionary related to La Fayette, who emigrated, then, disappointed, returned to France in 1792. Later, he became Major-General of Britain's Chouannerie under the command of Joseph Puisaye. After the departure of Puisaye for England in September 1794, under the policy of pacification required by the Convention and led by General Hoche (Army of the Coasts of Brest) and Canclaux (Army of the West), Dezoteux opened negotiations with Republicans, but apart from Boishardy, he had no confidence in the main Chouan leaders, nor even that of Hoche. However, Dezoteux was among the signatories, in February 1795, of the Treaty of La Jaunaye, which allowed temporary peace with the Convention. Captured by the Republicans in the summer of 1795 by Philippe-Albert Bollet, he was imprisoned and died in Lyon in 1812.
The family of his paternal grandfather, a native of Saint-Christophe-du-Bois, in the Maine-et-Loire, had two members who died for France during the World Wars. His great uncle, Joseph Bouchet, a bugler soldier in the 77th Infantry Regiment, died on September 24, 1914 in Baconnes (Marne). The nephew of the latter, René Bouchet, a gunner in the 341st Artillery Regiment, died on May 13, 1940 in Liesse-Notre-Dame (Aisne).
The father of Gauthier Bouchet, journalist and political activist Christian Bouchet (1955-), is also a member of the FN, which he joined six months after his son. He is described as having "grown up in a family of small provincial bourgeoisie, comprised of artisans and shopkeepers, many of whom were related to various right-wing extremist groups." Ultimately, the traces of this family commitment to the extreme right can be traced to the 1920s, in particular the Fédération nationale des Camelots du roi (Action française legitimists). They persisted after the Second World War with the Algérie française (French Algeria) movement in both antigaullism and anticommunism. Christian Bouchet was politicized for his part since the aftermath of May 68, and therefore militated in various nationalist organizations, including revolutionary nationalist ones.
Youth and studies
Gauthier Bouchet completed his studies in Nantes, at Harrouy's primary school and Jules Verne high school, where he obtained a literary (L) series baccalauréat in 2006. A student at the University of Nantes, he obtained a DEUG (2010) and a BA in history (2011), followed by a research master in contemporary history (2013) as a result of work on the political life from 1870 to 1877 in the French department of Loire-Inférieure.
Political career
Early years
FN member since October 2007, and part of the Loire-Atlantique federal bureau since October 2009, Gauthier Bouchet followed electoral campaigns in the FN western federations since the 2009 European elections, the first year for which he provided support for the web strategy management of the candidate Brigitte Neveux. This approach was extended through the 2010 regional elections in which Brigitte Neveux was the candidate for Pays de la Loire. Gauthier Bouchet was then a candidate for the first time in an election in twelfth position - not eligible - on the list of Loire-Atlantique department.
Pioneer of the implementation of FN on social networks
At the same time he managed, for two years, the communication of the FNJ youth organization on the Internet (first in tandem with Grégory Gennaro), Gauthier Bouchet also cared for the FN-party itself. Unofficially attached to the FN digital communication national secretary since August 2011, on the initiative of David Rachline (now mayor of Fréjus), Gauthier Bouchet was also responsible for the moderation of social networks for the FN, including Facebook pages of Marine Le Pen, candidate for the 2012 French presidential election, and the FN.
Gauthier Bouchet is also the creator of the Twitter page of the FN, under the "fnational" name (later renamed to "FN_officiel") in October 2009, making it the first French FN political movement on the network, followed by Marine Le Pen, in November 2010.
- Marion Maréchal-Le Pen on Facebook
Designer in July 2012, after the French legislative elections, of the official Facebook page "Marion Maréchal-Le Pen, Vaucluse MP", he was the co-manager in tandem with David Rachline until January 2013.
FNJ local and national leader
One of the representatives of the Pays de la Loire FNJ at the 24th Summer University organized in August 2010, he was appointed as departmental secretary, as well as a member of FNJ National Coordination in September, in charge of communication and social networks within the Internet division, then editor of the FNJ bimonthly Au Front (November 2010). Renewed in February 2011 at the FNJ National Directorate by Nathalie Pigeot, he took charge of social networking and community sites for FNJ. His colleague Grégory Gennaro resigning, he was, from July 2011, solely responsible for the Internet division within FNJ, which organized national and regional Internet community. He left his post at FNJ National Directorate on July 10, 2012, and at the departmental secretariat on October 26, 2012, after participating in the presidential campaign of Marine Le Pen.
After a vacancy of several months in Loire-Atlantique FNJ, in which militant activities were held without formal charge, on March 19, 2013, Gauthier Bouchet was renamed unopposed (his abstention by the Loire-Atlantique FN federal bureau) as FNJ departmental secretary. In July, Arnaud de Rigné replaced him.
2011 cantonal elections
Gauthier Bouchet was invested in February 2011 as FN candidate in the first district of Nantes (Hauts-Pavés-Saint-Félix), near the neighborhood where he lived for ten years (rue Deshoulières) and studied in secondary school at Jules Verne. After the first round, he collected 8.01% (550 votes), an insufficient score to enable him to qualify for the second. He therefore said he would give no instruction to his constituents: "Not being in the second round, and denouncing the failure of both local proponents of PS as UMP, I do not give any instructions to vote for one side or another. I remain firm on the denunciation of a system that I describe in some way, of UMPS: tacit collusion, about 99% of their "programs" between PS and UMP.".
2012 legislative elections
At its meeting of January 3rd, 2012, the Loire-Atlantique FN federal bureau approved Gauthier Bouchet as a substitute for the candidacy of Hervé Leca for the next Legislative elections in the tenth constituency (Vertou-Vineyard). A press conference organized at Nantes made it public on January 26th. For this election, Gauthier Bouchet was Hervé Leca's campaign manager.
Municipal councillor of Saint-Nazaire
After the last French presidential campaign, in October 2012, the website Les Inrocks saw in Gauthier Bouchet one of the "ten new faces of the Front national"; "With a strong historical culture, he is one of these young people who are predicted a brilliant career". However, Gauthier Bouchet was not renewed in his national and local mandates within the FNJ.
- Municipal campaign (October 2012-March 2014)
At the same time, shortly after the FN Summer University in La Baule-Escoublac (September 2012), he agreed with local FN leader Jean-Claude Blanchard, who led the party in the upcoming municipal elections in Saint-Nazaire, to integrate its list as an eligible candidate. Blanchard accepted Bouchet in third position. Invested by the party, Blanchard appointed Bouchet (December 2012) as his campaign manager. Fading, Gauthier Bouchet however waived this post (May 2013) and thus contributed much more informally to the campaign.
During the latter half of the campaign, Gauthier Bouchet became the writer of Jean-Claude Blanchard's political speeches. He wrote notes, press releases, and numerous open letters (Letter to economic actors, Letter to municipal staff ...).
Taking advantage of his historical culture and his republican, quasi-socialist sensitivity, as well as his own research on Saint-Nazaire, he brought up local historical themes and figures within the campaign. Among them is François Blancho (socialist SFIO former mayor and deputy of Saint-Nazaire).
In a context of general crisis of the industry and regular strikes, all supported by Jean-Claude Blanchard and the local FN section, these texts were based on a popular and workerist background, populist mottos - "Nazairian! Your vote is your sword!" - and a certain lyricism ("It is the sweat of those who built the largest ships in the world that has greased the Saint-Nazaire machine."). By the writings of Gauthier Bouchet, the local FN, hitherto closely linked to national issues, began to magnify the Saint-Nazaire Atlantic Shipyards and the popular district of Penhoët. Nostalgia and overt references to the "industrial vocation of Saint Nazaire" then supported a eurosceptic program, protectionism and a call for re-industrialization, in a series of writings which culminated after the municipal campaign, by the FN-celebration of the 150th Anniversary of Atlantic Shipyard, in May 2014.
District councillor of Saint-Nazaire
In his intervention about the district councils, during the municipal council of October 3, 2014, where he said he would vote for the charter that organized them, Gauthier Bouchet highlighted the FN's own design on the mode of appointment of district councillors, challenging the way of their designation. "You have to vote the charter of citizen participation, but in a vigilant approval, taking it literally, that in the above, a full proportional representation in the electoral lists in the last municipal elections.", he said, a few days before running as a candidate.
Consequently, Gauthier Bouchet was a candidate for district council of Downtown/City-Port/Petit Maroc on October 16, 2014. In a "counter-charter" published on November 12, entitled the Manifeste de vigie patriote à l'égard des quartiers nazairiens, beyond the usual proposals of his group on district councils (proportional representation, reducing the number of councilors), it posed the terms of a reflection on the "Saint-Nazaire identity" according to the local FN, fighting that is, for him, a "cultural change" at the initiative of the municipality: "The possibility for a majority of Nazairians to live their identity and assert their worker pride, is certainly made more difficult by the scarcity and insecurity of the jobs and traditions of the industry, but much more by the real cultural change imposed by the local left. In fact, it will most draw on the history of Saint-Nazaire only for propaganda, against that of a true-story that does not tell the truth of what was or what should be Saint-Nazaire."
On November 14, he was named among 591 candidates as district councilor of Saint-Nazaire. He is the only elected to be part of the FN with Stéphanie Sutter, his colleague in the municipal council.
FN Central Committee candidate
In the context of the FN's 15th Congress held in Lyon on November 29-30th, 2014, Gauthier Bouchet was a candidate for its Central Committee. He filed his candidacy on June 2, 2014 and officially announced it on June 7. The election, which determined the members of the "parliament of the party" entitled to sit for national councils, was held between September and November 2014.
Regional councilors collaborator in Pays de la Loire
During the campaign for regional elections in 2015, Pascal Gannat, the FN candidate in Pays de la Loire, made Gauthier Bouchet his assistant, along with Louis de Cacqueray, city councilor of Le Mans. He appointed Éléonore Revel as campaign manager. In doing so, Bouchet was not a candidate for these elections, unlike those of 2010, when he was invested in twelfth position on the Loire-Atlantique list.
After the regional elections, on December 18, 2015, he became a FN group assistant at the conseil régional of Pays de la Loire.
Interests and writings
A collector of fossils and passionate about paleontology since childhood, he is the creator of Paleontopedia (paleontopedia.org), a paleontological collaborative online encyclopedia. A freelance journalist during his adolescence, he was published at 17.
Gauthier Bouchet is a former journalist for political tabloid Flash (2010-2011) and FN-linked website Nations presse infos (2011-2012). Since its inception in 2011, he has also contributed to FNInfos.
In April 2014 he joined the staff of Forum du patriotisme social. He writes historical articles, especially on the history of republican ideas in France since the Nineteenth Century.
Summary of political functions and applications
Political functions
- October 26, 2009 -: member of the departmental office of the Loire-Atlantique FN
- September 22, 2010 – March 23, 2012: Pays de la Loire FNJ assistant regional secretary
- September 22, 2010 – July 10, 2012: communication manager at the FNJ National Directorate
- September 22, 2010-26 October 2012: Loire-Atlantique FNJ departmental secretary
- July 16, 2011 -: member of the FN national digital communication secretariat
- September 5, 2011 -: Loire-Atlantique FN digital communication departmental delegate
- September 5, 2011 – March 30, 2014: FN Loire-Atlantique fifth district secretary (North Nantes)
- December 20, 2012 – May 5, 2013: Saint-Nazaire Bleu Marine campaign and communication manager
Electoral mandates
- March 30, 2014 -: municipal councillor of Saint-Nazaire
- November 14, 2014 -: district councillor of Saint-Nazaire (Centre-Petit Maroc-Port)
Electoral applications
- 2010 Regional elections: 3rd position on Loire-Atlantique FN list (6.19%)
- 2011 Cantonal elections: candidate in the first district of Nantes (8.01%)
- 2012 Legislative elections: substitute candidate in the tenth district of Loire-Atlantique (8.50%)
- 2014 Municipal elections: 3rd position on Saint-Nazaire FN list (13.53%)
Internal applications
- Election of the FN Central Committee: candidate in the Lyons Congress (November 2014)
Bibliography
- Les élections législatives de 1871 dans le département de la Loire-Inférieure, Nantes University, 88 p., 2012.
- Les élections législatives de 1876 et 1877 dans le département de la Loire-Inférieure, Nantes University, 264 p., 2013.
- Le bonapartisme en Loire-Inférieure, 1871-1893, Revue du Centre d'études et de recherche sur le bonapartisme, Nancy University, 7 p., 2014.
- Rénover la gare selon Saint-Nazaire Bleu Marine, memorandum for the Direction de l’aménagement opérationnel de la Communauté d’agglomération de région nazairienne et de l’Estuaire (CARENE) (Direction of operational managing of Nazairian region and Estuaire agglomeration community), 11 p., 2014.
- Manifeste de vigie patriote à l'égard des quartiers nazairiens, manifesto for the designation of district councillor of Saint-Nazaire, 4 p., 2014.
External links
Institutional websites
- (in French) Official notice of the Saint-Nazaire website
Complementary sources
- (in French) 30% Proposal for a 30% reduction of compensation for Saint-Nazaire municipal councillors (May 23rd, 2014)
Major press articles
- (in French) Gauthier Bouchet, le jeune élu qui monte au Front, portrait by Saint-Nazaire infos
- (in French) Les Inrocks : "Les dix nouveaux visages du Front national"
- (in French) "Gauthier Bouchet has a good political culture", judgment of Florian Philippot, FN vice president
Personal websites
- (in French) Speech of homage to Joan of Arc, May 11th, 2014 at the Saint Donatian Church Nantes
- (in French) Official Facebook fanpage
- (in French) Paleontopedia, the palaeontological encyclopedy he created
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