Louis-Émile Bertin was a French naval engineer, one of the foremost of his time, and a proponent of the "Jeune École" philosophy of using light, but powerfully armed warships instead of large battleships.
Louis-Émile Bertin in Institut de France uniform, post 1903
The Bertin-designed French-built Matsushima, flagship of the Japanese Navy up to the Sino-Japanese conflict.
The French cruiser Émile Bertin.
Nancy is the prefecture of the northeastern French department of Meurthe-et-Moselle. It was the capital of the Duchy of Lorraine, which was annexed by France under King Louis XV in 1766 and replaced by a province, with Nancy maintained as capital. Following its rise to prominence in the Age of Enlightenment, it was nicknamed the "capital of Eastern France" in the late 19th century. The metropolitan area of Nancy had a population of 511,257 inhabitants at the 2018 census, making it the 16th-largest functional urban area in France and Lorraine's largest. The population of the city of Nancy proper is 104,885.
Image: Place Stanislas et ses grilles à Nancy
Image: Palais du Gouvernement Nancy
Image: Building of the Musee des Beaux Arts de Nancy 02 (cropped)
Image: Arc Here (5)
