Career
While holding administrative positions, he also wrote on He participated in the French resistance (in Toulouse where he instaured Charles De Gaulle"s authority during the liberation of France) and was, after the war, a high French police officer In 1968 he founded an Institute for istics at the New Sorbonne in Asnièresearch In 1970 he received the Goethe-Medaille, and in 1975 the Heinrich-Heine-Preis of the city of Düsseldorf.
He had three sons, two of whom have become renowned academics on their own right: Daniel Bertaux, Jean-Loup Bertaux.