Henri Gratien Bertrand, count, a French soldier, born at Chateauroux, March 28, 1773, died there, Jan. 31, 1844. He early joined the corps of engineers, became a captain in 1795, and, after serving in the Italian and Egyptian campaigns, was made general of brigade. He distinguished himself at Austerlitz, became adjutant of the emperor and general of division, and after the battle of Aspern, where he restored the passage over the Danube, he was made count and governor of Jllyria. He covered with his reserve corps the retreat of the army after the battle of Leipsic, and the passage over the Rhine after that of Hanau. To his previous rank of grand marshal of the palace the emperor added on his return to Paris that of aide major general of the national guard, He followed Napoleon to Elba, and with Soult is said to have prevented the emperor from rushing into death at Waterloo. bertrand and his wife (a daughter of Gen. Arthur Dillon) shared the exile at St. Helena. His sons published the Campagnea d'Egypte et de Syne, dicteea par Napoleon, a Samte-IIelene, au general Bertrand (2 vols., Paris, 1847), which he wrote under Napoleon's dictation. Returning to Paris after Napoleon's death, the sentence of death previously passed upon him was cancelled, and he was restored to his rank.

After the July revolution he was for a short time at the head of the polytechnic school, and was a deputy till 1834, advocating liberal measures and the freedom of the press. In 1840 he escorted Napoleon's remains from St. Helena to Paris, and he was buried by his side. - One of his sons, Alexandre Arthur Henri, born in 1811, acquired distinction as a soldier in Algeria and the Crimea, and as a deputy, and became in 1854 general of brigade.