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François-Marie, marquis de Barthélemy

Marquess
François Barthélemy
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Member of the French Chamber of Peers
In office
6 April 1814 – 3 April 1830
Monarch Louis XVIII
Charles X
Member of the French Conservative Senate
In office
27 December 1799 – 14 April 1814
Monarch Napoleon I
Member of the French Directory
In office
26 May 1797 – 5 September 1797
President Paul Barras
Preceded by Étienne-François Letourneur
Succeeded by François 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
Died 3 April 1830(1830-04-03) (aged 82)
Paris, France
Nationality French
Political party Independent (1791–1795)
Clichyen (1795–1797)
Profession Diplomat
Religion Roman Catholicism

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.

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).

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.

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.


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