Jacques Berthelot (1946 – 28 June 2024) was a French politician of the Rally for the Republic (RPR).
To date, he is the most recent right-wing politician to serve as mayor of Brest, where he was in office from 1983 to 1985.
[1] Born in Nantes in 1946, Berthelot earned an Agrégation de mathématiques [fr] and became a teacher at the École navale.
During his tenure, he broke the partnership contract between his city and Tallinn, capital of the then-Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic, instead opting to denounce the presence of Soviet spy ships off of the coast of Île Longue and refused an investigation into human rights by Amnesty International.
[3] He was subsequently elected to the General Council of Finistère in 1985, serving the Canton of Brest-Cavale-Blanche-Bohars-Guilers [fr] until 1998.