François-Marie, marquis de Barthélemy
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Marquess François Barthélemy |
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| Member of the French Chamber of Peers | |
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In office 6 April 1814 – 3 April 1830 |
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| Monarch |
Louis XVIII Charles X |
| Member of the French Conservative Senate | |
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In office 27 December 1799 – 14 April 1814 |
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| Monarch | Napoleon I |
| Member of the French Directory | |
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In office 26 May 1797 – 5 September 1797 |
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| President | Paul Barras |
| Preceded by | Étienne-François Letourneur |
| Succeeded by | François de Neufchâteau |
| France Ambassador to Switzerland | |
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In office 3 September 1791 – 2 November 1795 |
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| Personal details | |
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20 October 1747 Aubagne, France |
| Died | 3 April 1830 (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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