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BARTHELEMY  JEAN-BAPTISTE ANTOINE DE (1821–1904), French archaeologist and numismatist, was born at Reims on the 1st of July 1821, and died at Ville d'Avray on the 27th of June 1904 . In collaboration with J . Geslin de Bourgogne he published Etudes sur la revolution en Bretagne in 1858, and between 1855 and 1879 an exhaustive work in six volumes on the Anciens eve"ches de Bretagne; histoire et monuments . In 188o appeared the Choix de documents inedits sur l'histoire de la ligue en Bretagne, by himself alone . But it was, above all, his numismatical work which established his reputation . This included several popular publications, such as the Nouveau manuel complet de numismatique ancienne (1851; second edition, revised, 1890), and the Nouveau manuel complet de numismatique du moyen.dge et moderne (1853; new edition revised by Adrien Planchet), and a large number of monographs and articles in the technical. reviews . The following may be specially mentioned: Numismatique merovingienne (1865); Essai sur la monnaie parisis (1874); Note sur l'origine de la monnaie tournoise (1896); and in the series of instructions issued by the Comite des travaux historiques et scientifiques he edited the number on La Numismatique de la France (1891) . In 1897 he was elected a member of the Academie des Inscriptions et Belles-lettres . His younger brother, EDOUARD MARIE, comte de Barthelemy, who was born in Angers in 183o, has published a number of documents upon the ancient French nobility and upon the history of Champagne .