Bertin was born in
Druyes-les-Belles-Fontaines,
Yonne and died in
Neuilly-sur-Seine,
Hauts-de-Seine. He studied at the
École polytechnique (graduating in 1938) and at the
École nationale supérieure de l'aéronautique (graduating in 1943). From 1944 he worked for the French National Society for the Development of Aircraft Engines (
Société nationale d'études et de construction de moteurs d'aviation). In 1955 he founded the company Bertin & Cie, whose most famous activity was the development of the
Aérotrain. In 1965 he founded the
Société d'Étude et de Développement des Aéroglisseurs Marins (SEDAM) as a subsidiary for
hovercraft. Bertin died of a brain tumour just over a year and a half after the French government terminated the contract for a planned Aérotrain line between
Cergy and
La Défense in Greater Paris. ==References==