Elected deputy mayor in 1983 of Dreux, a city of around 30,000 inhabitants at the time, he was one of the main architects, along with his wife Marie-France Stirbois, of the first electoral breakthrough of the National Front.

[4] Stirbois then joined the far-right militant group Occident and became the head of the youth wing in the national council of the Tixier-Vignancour committees during the 1965 presidential campaign.

[3] Close to Aginter Press, he was condemned to a suspended one-year jail sentence after the discovery of arms and equipment for the production of explosives in his basement.

[2] Part of the solidarist wing of the party and a pro-Zionist, Stirbois opposed the neo-fascist factions in the FN who accused him of secretly being a Jew.

During the second round, the local mainstream right-wing parties Rally for the Republic (RPR) and Union for French Democracy (UDF) agreed to form an alliance with the FN.

[2] After having threatened France of a new OAS in a meeting in Dreux, claiming to be ready to "donate his skin in order to achieve his ideas" ("mettre sa peau au bout de ses idées"), Stirbois died in a car crash on 5 November 1988.