Journal des débats
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The Journal des débats was a French newspaper, published between 1789 and 1944 that changed title several times. Created shortly after the first meeting of the Estates-General of 1789, it was, after t
Journal des Débats - Portrait of monsieur Bertin, director, by Ingres
Louis-François Bertin
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Louis-François Bertin, also known as Bertin l'Aîné, was a French journalist. He had a younger brother, Louis-François Bertin de Vaux; two sons, Edouard François and Louis-Marie François; and a daughte
Journal des débats
…title Journal des Débats et des Décrets ("Journal of Debates and Decrees"). Published weekly rather than daily, it was headed for nearly forty years by Bertin l'Aîné and was owned for a long time by the Bertin family. During the First Empire it was opposed to Napoleon and had a new title imposed on it, the Journal…
Louis-François Bertin (François-Xavier Fabre, 1803)
Portrait of Louis-François Bertin (Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, 1832)