Denis Berthe (born the February 17th 1768 with Apt, Vaucluse - died the March 26th 1847 with Saint-Marc-Jaumegarde) was mayor of the small commune of Saint-Marc-Jaumegarde, close to Aix-en-Provence, 1835 with 1847.

Although domiciled with Saint-Marc, Denis Berthe followed his occupation of salpétrier with Aix-en-Provence, street Fountain-with Argent. Almost illiterate - it was hardly able to trace the letters of its name - he was however mayor of its commune of 1835 with 1847.

Political offices

He exerted his function at one important moment of the life of the commune, when the engineer François Zola (father of the writer), conceived the plans of a stopping envisaged in the combes of Bimont (not to be confused with the Zola stopping, which was built much later). At the time of the municipal council of November 12th 1843, with the Home of Bonfillons, the municipal council of Saint-Marc had to come to a conclusion about the question and rejected in block the project, except for a voice, that of Denis Berthe, who had included/understood the general interest of the company. This last signed even a commitment to sell in François Zola of his grounds of Bimont. The project does not succeed however, because of not died of the ingénieur.
The Zola stopping, dates to him only from the 20th century.

Denis Berthe was thus a precursor. The future gave him reason.

Its tomb

Its tomb is always in the small communal cemetery. The following epitaph there is read: “ Ci to lie Denis Berthe, born with Apt on February 17th 1768, deceased on March 26th 1847. Good father and good citizen, he lived as Juste and died as a Christian. The memory of its virtues patriarchales will live in the heart of his/her children, his/her friends, and the inhabitants of this commune which it managed with such an amount of zeal and devotion to its last breath… ”

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