Brest is a port city in the Finistère department,Brittany. Located in a sheltered bay not far from the western tip of a peninsula and the western extremity of metropolitan France,Brest is an important harbour and the second largest French military port after Toulon. The city is located on the western edge of continental France. With 139,456 inhabitants (2020),Brest forms Western Brittany's largest metropolitan area,ranking third behind only Nantes and Rennes in the whole of historic Brittany,and the 25th most populous city in France (2019);moreover,Brest provides services to the one million inhabitants of Western Brittany. Although Brest is by far the largest city in Finistère,the préfecture of the department is in the much smaller town of Quimper.
Morlaix is a commune in the Finistère department of Brittany in northwestern France. It is a sub-prefecture of the department.
Jean-Pierre Chevènement is a French politician who served as a minister in the 1980s and 1990s best known for his candidacy in the 2002 French presidential election. After serving as mayor of Belfort,he was elected to the Senate for the Territoire de Belfort in 2008. As a cofounder of the Socialist Party (PS) and founder of the Citizen and Republican Movement (MRC),he is a significant figure of the French left.
Alain Vivien is a French Socialist Party (PS) politician,best known for chairing (1998–2002) the French Mission Interministérielle pour la Lutte contre les Sectes,MILS,a ministerial organization designed to observe the activities of various religious organizations defined as "Sectes" (cults).
The Stade Francis-Le Blé is a multi-use stadium in Brest,France. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home stadium of Stade Brestois 29. The stadium is able to hold 15,220 spectators. The stadium is named for Francis Le Blé,former mayor of Brest who died in 1982.
Briec is a commune in the Finistère department in the region of Brittany in north-western France.
RenéMonory was a French centre-right Gaullist politician.
HervéMorin is a French politician of the Centrists who has been serving as the first President of the Regional Council of Normandy since January 2016. Under President Nicolas Sarkozy,he was the Minister of Defence.
Xavier Darcos is a French politician,scholar,civil servant and former Minister of Labour.
Jean-Marie Bockel is a French politician who has been serving as President Emmanuel Macron's Personal Envoy for Africa since 2024.
Locquirec is a commune in the Finistère department of Brittany in north-western France.
Maryvonne Blondin is a member of the Senate of France,representing the Finistère department. She is a member of the Socialist Party.
Michel Delebarre was a French politician who was a member of the Senate of France. He represented the Nord department,and was a member of the Socialiste,radical,citoyen et divers gauche. He was also mayor of Dunkirk.
Patricia Adam was a member of the National Assembly of France from 2002 to 2017. She represented the 2nd constituency of the Finistère department as a member of the Socialist Party.
The Brest tramway located in Brest,Brittany,France consists of a 28-stop,two-branch,14.3-kilometre (8.9 mi) line connecting Porte de Plouzanéin the west with Porte de Gouesnou and Porte de Guipavas northeast of the city centre. The end-to-end journey takes 38 minutes. It's operated by RD Brest,and it's part of the Bibus network. The system began service on 23 June 2012. It is expected to serve 50,000 passengers per day. The line is the successor to a tram network that operated in Brest from 1898 to 1944. The network has the distinction of being trilingual.
Jean-François Picheral was a French Socialist politician. He served as a member of Mayor of Aix-en-Provence from 1989 to 2001,and as a French Senator from 1998 to 2008.
Pierre de Saintignon was a French politician. He was a member of the French Socialist Party since 1967. He was elected councilor to the Lille municipality in 1989,1995,2001,2008 and 2014,the first two terms under Pierre Mauroy and the other three under Martine Aubry. From 2001,he was the First Deputy-Mayor,in charge of finance,economic development and military matters. In 1998,2004 and 2010 he was elected councilor the Regional Council of Nord-Pas-de-Calais,where he sat as first vice-president,in charge of economic development. Most of his political career was as an unofficial chief of staff,rather than as a foreground person. He was chosen to lead the PS list for the 2015 regional elections that were held on 6 and 13 December 2015.
Richard Ferrand is a French politician of La République En Marche! (LREM) who served as President of the National Assembly from 2018 to 2022. He had served as a member of the National Assembly for Finistère's 6th constituency from 2012 to 2022. A longtime member of the Socialist Party,he was LREM's General Secretary from October 2016. He briefly served as Minister for the Cohesion of Territories between May and June 2017 before resigning due to nepotism accusations. Following his resignation,he became the leader of the party's group in the National Assembly in June 2017 and then was elected to the Chamber's Presidency in September 2018.
Charles Miossec was a French politician.
Jacques Berthelot 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.
