Thierry Choffat (19 May 1968 – 6 September 2021) was a French political scientist. He specialized in syndicalism, the far right, the far left, and

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Biography

Choffat earned a degree in public law from the

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and obtained a doctorate in political science. He became a lecturer at the

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and joined the . He served on the council of administrators of the Souvenir napoléonien. In 2010, he became President of the Vosges Napoléoniennes, an association re-enacting events from the department of

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. A Bonapartist activist, Choffat co-founded the political party Rassemblement bonapartiste in 1992. The party dissolved in 1996 and he subsequently co-founded Avenir France République, under which he stood in the

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, garnering 3% of the vote in Doubs's 3rd constituency. In 2000, he founded France bonapartiste, of which he served as Vice-President. In

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, he was elected

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of Fraimbois, as well as community councilor in Mortagne. In

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, he unsuccessfully ran for Departmental Councilor of Canton of Lunéville-2. Choffat joined the

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party

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. In 2013, he was elected to the party's national council. However, he subsequently left the party due to its shift to the right. He became Vice-President of the party L'Appel au Peuple, founded on 4 May 2021 by David Saforcada. Thierry Choffat died in

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on 6 September 2021 at the age of 53.

Books

*''Les élections présidentielles de 1995'' (1997) *''Les Francs-Comtois et l'Empire'' (2004) *''Les syndiqués en France'' (2007) *''Les Comtois de Napoléon'' (2010) *''La Bérézina. Suisses et Français dans la tourmente de 1812'' (2012) *''Les syndicats catégoriels : CGC, USS-Solidaires, FSU, UNSA. Les syndicats en France'' (2012) *''Les partis de la gauche anticapitaliste en Europe'' (2012) *''Les origines bonapartistes de la Participation'' (2013) *''Le mouvement bonapartiste de 1870 à 2014'' (2014) *''Michel Ney, le Brave des Braves'' (2015) *''Antoine Drouot, Le Sage de la Grande Armée'' (2017) *''Drouot, Le Sage de la Grande armée'' (2019)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Choffat, Thierry 1968 births 2021 deaths French political scientists University of Rennes alumni Academic staff of the University of Lorraine