Saint-Briac-sur-Mer

Saint-Briac, also known as Saint-Briac-sur-Mer, is a commune of the Ille-et-Vilaine département, in Brittany, France.

Brice Lalonde, a former Socialist and Green party candidate for President of France, is mayor of this wealthy resort village.

Lalonde and his first cousin Sen. John Forbes Kerry are grandsons of James Grant Forbes, an heir of the Forbes family of China and Boston, who was born in Shanghai and later moved to France where the offshore Forbes family estate is located. Kerry and Lalonde were childhood friends on the estate in Saint-Briac.