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See also:BARTHELEMY, See also:FRANCOIS, See also:MARQUIS DE (1747 or 1750-1830) , See also:French politician, was educated by his See also:uncle the See also:abbe See also:Jean Jacques Barthelemy for a See also:diplomatic career, and after serving as secretary of See also:legation in See also:Sweden, in See also:Switzerland and in See also:England, was appointed See also:minister plenipotentiary in Switzerland, in which capacity he negotiated the See also:treaties of See also:Basel with See also:Prussia and See also:Spain (1795)_ Elected a member of the See also:Directory in May 1797, through royalist See also:influence, he was arrested at the coup d'etat of the 18 Fructidor (17th of See also:September 1797) and deported to French See also:Guiana, but escaped and made his way to the See also:United States and then to England. He returned to See also:France after the 18 See also:Brumaire, entered the See also:senate in See also:February 1800 and contributed to the See also:establishment of the consulship for See also:life and the See also:empire. In 1814 he abandoned See also:Napoleon, took See also:part in the See also:drawing up of the constitutional See also:charter and was named peer of France. During the See also:Hundred Days he lived in concealment, and after the second Restoration obtained the See also:title marquis, and in 1819 introduced a See also:motion in the chamber of peers tending to render the electoral See also:law more aristocratic. His Papiers have been published by J. Kaulek, 4 vols. (See also:Paris, 1886-1888). See A. See also:Sorel, L'See also:Europe et la Revolution franfaise, iv. (Paris, 1892) ; L. Sciout, Le Directoire (Paris, 1895). End of Article: BARTHELEMY, FRANCOIS, MARQUIS DE (1747 or 1750-1830)Additional information and CommentsThere are no comments yet for this article.
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