Charles Pierre Bertier (25 July 1821 – 29 January 1882) was a French lawyer, magistrate, director of the Courrier des Alpes, Master of Requests to the Council of State and Governor of Martinique from 1867 to 1869.

[5] On 25 July 1859 the doctor and journalist Gaspard-Antoine Dénarié(fr), Bertier and thirty other notables of Chambéry asked King Victor-Emmanuel II about the future of Savoy.

They were no longer particularly interested in becoming part of the nascent Kingdom of Italy, which was engaged in costly wars to impose central government on the principalities, had started to destroy ecclesiastical institutions despite opposition from the Savoy deputies, was even ready to dethrone the Pope.

[6] In 1860 Napoleon III made the senator Armand Laity(fr) "Extraordinary Imperial Commissioner" with responsibility for propaganda for annexation of Savoy to France.

At the same time a committee was formed for this purpose headed by Count Amédée Greyfié de Bellecombe(fr), a lawyer at the Court of Appeal of Chambéry, which included Charles Bertier Director of the newspaper Courrier des Alpes.

[8] On 10 March 1860 Bertier and Amédée Greyfié de Bellecombe went to Paris and met Foreign Minister Édouard Thouvenel to explain the views of the people of Savoy on becoming part of France.

He noted that it was unique for such a change of borders to take place not through conquest or through an uprising, but through the free consent of the legitimate sovereign supported by the people.

[20] In February 1882 the Courrier des Alpes noted that, "We were surprised that none of the gentlemen of the Prefecture represented the government at the funeral of a man who had contributed so much to the annexation of Savoy.