Jean-Baptiste Victor Chazelas (born 23 April 1885 in Bussière-Galant; died 29 December 1953 in Nice) was a French colonial administrator.
During the First World War Chazelas served in 1915 as a second lieutenant of the 63rd Infantry Regiment at the front against the German Reich.
[2] For the Paris Colonial Exposition of 1931 he wrote the book Territoires africains sous mandat de la France: Cameroun et Togo.
From April 1938 to February 1939 he served on an interim basis as the governor of the colony of Niger.
[4] Chazelas was a harsh critic of Louis Hunkanrin, calling him a communist sympathizer and insinuating that he derived a profit from his articles about slaves.