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.

The "Marianne", a secret society created to fight the reactionary actions of conservatives, often met in his home.

[2] Thivrier defeated Stéphane Mony, the director of the Société de Commentry, Fourchambault et Decazeville, which owned the local mines, and a former mayor and deputy.

60 failed these interviews, and 67 were told they needed certificates of good conduct from their new employers before they could work again at the mines.

[4] Despite this repression, Thivrier was Mayor of Commentry from 4 June 1882, then district councilor, and gained huge support from the working class.

He was removed from office on 14 December 1888 for having sent an address of sympathy to the trade union congress in Bordeaux that he signed with his title of mayor.

[3][a] Friedrich Engels saw the elections as a success, counting Eugène Baudin, Thivrier and Félix Lachize(fr) as Marxists, and considering that Gustave Paul Cluseret and Ernest Ferroul were "bound to cast in their lot with the first three.

[2] At the 1892 National Guesdist Congress in Marseille Thivrier raised violent controversy by defending the general strike.

"[9] Thivrier's program in the 1893 elections included an 8-hour day and one day of rest per week, protection and education for children, equal pay for men and women, participation of workers in developing shop rules, nationalization of the banks and railways and operation of state factories by the workers.

When the session was resumed Édouard Vaillant took up Thivrier's defense with a glowing eulogy of the Paris Commune.