BERTIN, Louis FRANgOIS (1766-1841). A French journalist known as Bertin Able. He was born in Paris, began writing for the press in 1793, and in 1800, with his brother (also called Louis Francois) assumed the management of the Journal des Debats, founded in 1789 by Gaultier de Biauzat. Bertin's Royalist principles offended Napoleon, and caused his banishment to Elba. With great difficulty he obtained permission to live in Italy until 1804, when he returned to Paris and resumed the editorship of the Debats, but was much hampered by Napoleon, who im posed on the paper the title of Journal de l'Em pire, and by subjecting it to police revision, gave it almost an official character. When Bertin, in 1814, became free to follow his own bent, the journal reverted to its Royalist principles. Dur ing the Hundred Days it fell into other hands, till the return of the Bourbons restored it once more to Bertin, who, in the meantime, had taken part in the Monitewr de (land. Though he did not join in the protest of the Liberal journals against the ordonnances, lie gave his adhesion to the .lily
Monarchy, and continued faithfully to support it. BERTIN, NICOLAS (c.1668-1736 ) . A French painter. He was born in Paris and received his artistic training under his brother, the Court sculptor of Louis XIV., and afterwards under Vernansalle, Jouven•t, and Bonllongne. In 1685 he obtained the grand prize for the picture en titled "The Building of the Ark." His picture "Prometheus Liberated by Hercules" ( Louvre) won him a membership at the Academy (1705), at which institution he became professor in 1715 and adjunct rector in 1733. His numerous paint ings, which may be found in the galleries of Tou louse, Orleans, Antwerp, Amsterdam, Dresden, Stockholm, and Saint Petersburg. include: "Saint Philip Baptizing the Eunuch ;" "Chastity of Jo seph;" "Susanna at the Bath ;" "Man with the Gourd:" and the Bear."