François-Marie, marquis de Barthélemy

François-Marie, Marquess of Barthélemy (20 October 1747, Aubagne – 3 April 1830 Paris) was a French politician and diplomat, active at the time of the French Revolution.

This article is about the French politician and diplomat. For French general with a similar name, see Pierre Marie Barthélemy Ferino.
Marquess
François Barthélemy
Member of the French Chamber of Peers
In office
6 April 1814 – 3 April 1830
MonarchsLouis XVIII
Charles X
Member of the French Conservative Senate
In office
27 December 1799 – 14 April 1814
MonarchNapoleon I
Director of the French Directory
In office
26 May 1797 – 5 September 1797
PresidentPaul Barras
Preceded byÉtienne-François Letourneur
Succeeded byFrançois de Neufchâteau
France Ambassador to Switzerland
In office
3 September 1791 – 2 November 1795
Personal details
Born(1747-10-20)20 October 1747
Aubagne, France
Died3 April 1830(1830-04-03) (aged 82)
Paris, France
Resting placePère Lachaise Cemetery
Political partyIndependent (1791–1795)
Clichyen (1795–1797)
ProfessionDiplomat

Biography

Diplomat and member of the Directory

Born in Aubagne, he was educated by his uncle the abbé Jean-Jacques Barthélemy for a diplomatic career. After serving as secretary of legation in Sweden, in Switzerland and in the Kingdom of Great Britain, he was appointed Minister Plenipotentiary in Switzerland, in which capacity he negotiated the treaties of Basel with Prussia and Spain (1795).[1]

Elected a member of the Directory in May 1797, through Royalist influence, he was arrested after General Augereau's anti-Royalist coup d'état of the 18 Fructidor (17 September 1797), and deported to French Guiana, but escaped and made his way to Suriname, then to the United States, and finally to Britain.[1]

Empire

Barthélemy returned to France after Napoleon Bonaparte's 18 Brumaire coup, entered the Senate in February 1800 and contributed to the establishment of the Consulship for life and the First French Empire.[1]

In 1814 he abandoned Napoleon, voted the Acte de déchéance de l'Empereur and took part in the drawing up of King Louis XVIII's Constitutional Charter and was named Peer of France. During the Hundred Days he lived in concealment, and after the Second Restoration obtained the title marquis, and in 1819 introduced a motion in the chamber of Peers tending to render the electoral law more aristocratic.[1]

Legacy

The Rue François Barthélémy in Héricy is named after him.

References
  1. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Barthélemy, François, Marquis de". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 3 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 448. This, in turn, cites as references:
    • Marquis de Barthélemy, Papiers, published by Jean Kaulek, 4 vols. (Paris, 1886–1888)
    • Albert Sorel, L'Europe et la Révolution française, iv. (Paris, 1892)
    • Ludovic Sciout, Le Directoire (Paris, 1895)

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