Corinne Bouchoux

Corinne Bouchoux (born 5 January 1964 Issy-les-Moulineaux) is a French historian and politician .

She is a member of Europe Ecology The Greens (EELV), she was a senator for Maine-et-Loire from 2011 to 2017.

Life

Corinne Bouchoux obtained her diploma from the Paris Institute of Political Studies in 1986 .^[1]

A contributor to Science et Vie Économie and later Alternatives économiques , she was a certified secondary school teacher of economics and social sciences and taught contemporary history at the Paris Institute of Political Studies from 1989 to 2002. Between 1997 and 2007, she held a management position within the French National Education system.

In September 2007, she was seconded to Agrocampus Ouest, where she was appointed research engineer responsible for training and student life. She left the institute on 1 October 2011, following her election as a senator.

She defended a doctoral thesis in history on the subject: “If paintings could speak. The political and media treatment of the return of works of art looted and spoliated by the Nazis (France 1945–2008)”. She subsequently became involved, as a senator, in the restitution of works of art looted under the Third Reich, in order to clarify the history of the works of art in deposit, to have their inventory drawn up and to make these archives available online .^[2]

A historian, she collaborates with Musea, a virtual museum of women's and gender history published by the University of Angers, for which she has designed four exhibitions: "Citizen Marie Bonnevial ​​(1841-1918)," "  Rose Valland , on the Art Front," "Family Planning: 50 Years in Posters" (with Bibia Pavard ),^[3] an exhibition dedicated to the French Family Planning Movement, and an exhibition on Yvette Roudy using posters and photographs. She currently works primarily on the following topics: regional attractiveness, economic intelligence and its teaching in France over the past 20 years, the transformation of our modes of production and its impact on the skills of stakeholders and regions, with a gender dimension. Supporting students' civic engagement and combating homophobia and sexism are both professional and activist commitments.

In September 2011, she was elected senator for Maine-et-Loire under the Europe Ecology-The Greens colalition party. She was a member of the Committee on Culture, Education and Communication, and secretary of the Senate committee for monitoring the application of laws. She issued a report on art looted by the Nazis.^[4][5]

She chaired the Green group in the Senate from November to December 2015, alongside Jean-Vincent Placé , and then again from February 2016, following his appointment to the government.^[6] She left this position on May 3, 2016, becoming secretary of the Senate bureau, replacing Jean Desessard, who succeeded her as chair of the group . She decided not to stand for re-election in the 2017 Senate elections in Maine-et-Loire .

In 2019, she joined the list of the outgoing mayor of Angers, Christophe Béchu, who had the support of La République en Marche for the 2020 municipal elections.^[7][8] She became 5th vice-president, then 2nd vice -president (2022), in charge of ecological transition and mobility at the.Angers Loire Métropole community council .

Alongside her role as an elected official, she works as a social and economic sciences (SES) teacher at the Chevrollier high school in Angers.

Personal life

Corinne Bouchoux has been in a civil partnership since 2001 with historian Christine Bard, a specialist in women's history, gender, feminism and antifeminism .

She considers the assertion of her homosexuality as an act of activism, especially towards young people, who "do not have enough positive representations of homosexuality. It is important that they can tell themselves that one can be gay and still be involved in politics .^[9]

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