Bertrand
Encyclopedia
People
- Bertrand (name)Bertrand (name)Bertrand is a given name and surname. In German, the name derives from berht and hramn or rand .People with the name include:- Given name :* Bertrand of Comminges , saint and Bishop of Comminges...
, a Germanic name and surname including a list of people with the name
Fictional characters
- Bertrand Baudelaire, a fictional character in A Series of Unfortunate Events
- Bertrand Caillet, the protagonist of Guy Endore's novel The Werewolf of ParisThe Werewolf of ParisThe Werewolf of Paris is a horror novel by Guy Endore. The novel follows Bertrand Caillet, the main character, who turns into a werewolf.-Plot summary:Bertrand is born on a Christmas Eve to a woman who had been molested by a priest...
- Bertrand, a monkey in the fable of The Monkey and the CatThe Monkey and the CatThe Monkey and the Cat is best known as a fable adapted by Jean de La Fontaine that appeared in the second edition of his Fables Choisies in 1679...
Places
- Bertrand, MissouriBertrand, MissouriBertrand is a city in Mississippi County, Missouri, United States. The population was 740 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Bertrand is located at . According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , all land....
, USA - Bertrand, NebraskaBertrand, NebraskaBertrand is a village in Phelps County, Nebraska, United States. The population was 786 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Bertrand is located at ....
, USA - Bertrand, New BrunswickBertrand, New BrunswickBertrand is a Canadian village in Gloucester County, New Brunswick.The village is located on the Acadian Peninsula at the mouth of the Caraquet River where it empties into Caraquet Bay, roughly 10 km west of Caraquet....
, Canada - Bertrand Township, MichiganBertrand Township, MichiganBertrand Township is a civil township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2000 census, the township population was 2,380.- Communities :...
, USA - Bertrand, VirginiaBertrand, VirginiaBertrand is an unincorporated community in Lancaster County in the U. S. state of Virginia....
, USA - Saint-Bertrand-de-CommingesSaint-Bertrand-de-CommingesSaint-Bertrand-de-Comminges is a commune in the Haute-Garonne department in southwestern France. It is a member of the Les Plus Beaux Villages de France association.-History:...
, France
Other
- Bertrand (electoral district)Bertrand (electoral district)Bertrand is a provincial electoral district in Quebec, Canada that elects members to the National Assembly of Quebec. The riding was created in 1994 from parts of Labelle, Prévost and Rousseau...
, a provincial electoral constituency in Quebec - Bertrand (programming language)Bertrand (programming language)Bertrand is a computer programming language for creating constraint programming systems. The language was created by Wm Leler in the mid-1980s as part of his doctoral research...
- Steamboat BertrandSteamboat BertrandThe Steamboat Bertrand was owned by the J.J. Roe and Company in St. Louis, Missouri. Loaded with cargo heading for remote Virginia City, Montana Territory, the steamboat sank on April 1, 1865, after hitting a log in the Missouri River north of Omaha, Nebraska. Half of its cargo was recovered 100...
, an 1865 steamboat wreck that was excavated in the DeSoto National Wildlife Refuge - Bertrand competitionBertrand competitionBertrand competition is a model of competition used in economics, named after Joseph Louis François Bertrand . It describes interactions among firms that set prices and their customers that choose quantities at that price....
, an economic model where firms compete in price