Amable Berthelot (February 10, 1777 – November 24, 1847) was a Canadien lawyer, author and political figure.

Trained as a lawyer, he was an avid book-collector, at one point having a personal library of some fifteen hundred volumes.

Michel-Amable was the representative for Quebec County in the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada, elected by acclamation in a by-election in 1793.

He studied at the Petit Séminaire de Québec, then articled in law with Jean-Antoine Panet, a prominent lawyer and the first Speaker of the Legislative Assembly.

[1][2] The interests of the English population [of Lower Canada] are protected and defended in England, by the legislative council and by the governor.

In 1814, he was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada for the district, along with Charles Richard Ogden in the two member constituency.

Ogden went on to hold the seat until 1833, with one short gap, and eventually was a co-premier of the Province of Canada, still representing Trois-Rivières.

In the next election, in 1827, he stood as a candidate for the Parti patriote in Upper Town, Quebec City, a two-member constituency.

This time, Berthelot was elected to represent Quebec City's Upper Town in the Legislative Assembly.

[7] There was, however, one account by an informer who stated that in the summer of 1837, Berthelot attended a meeting of a revolutionary committee at Deux-Montagnes, where he called the Governor a robber and urged the local citizens to join in a revolt.

[8] In one debate in the Assembly, he stated his political views as Suaviter in modo, fortiter in re ("Be steadfast in principle, conciliatory in action").

[1][2][12][13] In Parliament, Bertholot was opposed to the union, and was a consistent opponent of the policies of Governor-General Lord Sydenham.

He also voted in favour of the reform measures proposed by his son-in-law, LaFontaine, and the principles of responsible government.

He was a member of the Société littéraire et historique de Québec, and corresponded with intellectuals on the historical origins of New France.

Berthelot later gave financial support for the publication of the first volume of Garneau's important work, Histoire du Canada depuis sa découverte jusqu'à nos jours, written in response to Durham's assertion that the people of Lower Canada were a "a people with no literature and no history.

Adèle married LaFontaine on July 9, 1831, while Amable fils practised medicine at Saint-Eustache, near Montreal.