Nathalie Gautier

She was first elected to the municipal council alongside Charles Hernu as deputy mayor of Villeurbanne in 1983.^[1][3] Gautier would go on to work under four successive mayors,^[3] and served as a councillor for the Lyon urban community from 1989 as well as a general councillor for the canton of Villeurbanne-Sud [Wikidata] in the Rhône region between 1990 and 2001.^[1][4] She had responsibility or green spaces, urban planning and later urban landscapes.^[1] Gautier was chair of the urban planning commission for Greater Lyon.^[3]

At the 2002 French legislative election, she stood for election to the National Assembly as a deputy of Rhône's 6th constituency as a member of the Socialist Party.^[4][5] Gautier won election and took up her seat on 19 June 2002.^[5] She was president of the France–Latvia friendship group and a member of the National Assembly's Committee on Economic, Environmental and Territorial Affairs [fr].^[2] Gautier was also a member of the Special Committee to Examine the Draft Law on Economic Initiative and was a member of various study groups on such as housing, employment, urban policy, women's rights and education.^[4][5] She was president of Segapal, the semi-public company that managed and ran the Miribel-Jonage Nature Park.^[6] Gautier had planned to stand for re-election at the 2007 French legislative election but was succeeded by Lilian Zanchi [fr; arz] upon her death.^[4]

She was married and had four children.^[7] Gautier died of cancer on 1 September 2006.^[3][7] Her funeral took place in Villeurbanne on the morning of 6 September.^[4]