See also: Bertin

Theodore-Pierre Bertin (November 2nd 1751, Layered branches - January 25th 1819, Paris) is the author of the revival of the Sténographie in France.

Biography

Theodore-Pierre Bertin studied the method Taylor with London. On its return to Paris in 1791, it translated the book “ An essay intended to establish has off standard for year universal system Stenography, but Shorts-hand writing ” of Samuel Taylor. It publishes its translation under the title “ universal and complete Système of Shorthand or Manner shortened to write applicable to all the idioms ”, whose first edition goes back to 1792. In 1795, the Convention assigns an annual allocation to him. The second edition will be published in 1795, the third in 1796, and the fourth in 1803.

During the Consulate and the Empire one did without his services, and in 1817 it recently started to take the speeches for the Universal Monitor.

It translated from English:

• the Life of Bacon of Mallet, 1788
• the Satyrs of Young, 1798
• the System of shorthand of Taylor, 1792 and 1803
• the Newton of youth , 1808 and 1825, kind of " lesson of choses" for children.

Let us note finally that, gifted also of an inventive spirit, he invented the " lamp docimastique" , ancestor of the blow lamp formerly.

A biographical note to him was devoted (" Pierre Bertin, shorthand writer, literary man and inventeur" , by Ernest Choullier, 1886).

Bertin alphabet

Theodore-Pierre Bertin preserved the signs of Taylor with his same values, by adding some to symbolize the vowels at the end of the mot. His method was the first method which made it possible to link the signs between them without raising the feather.

The system, formed by 16 alphabetical signs, initial and six stops, as soon as it is differentiated from that of Taylor. These signs are used for a quantity as ends whose sounds are appeared. The short cuts consist the removal of letters or the reduction of a word to their initial.

The Bertin method was improved by Hippolyte Prévost, then by Albert Delaunay.

Partial sources

• Ernest Choullier, Pierre Bertin, shorthand writer, literary man and inventor (1751-1819) , L. Frémont, Arcis-on-Paddle, 1886.
• Departmental records of Seine-et-Marne
• Files of Paris