Gérard Boulanger is a French lawyer and human rights activist. He is close to the Left Front. A famous lawyer, notably leading charges against Maurice Papon, Boulanger is also a human rights activist and union member. He wrote the biography of Papon, Maurice Papon: A French Bureaucrat in Collaboration. He was selected to be the Left Front's candidate in Aquitaine for regional elections. His list also received the support of the New Anticapitalist Party despite negotiations between the NPA and Left Front failing nationally.