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MARQUIS DE FRANCOIS BARTHELEMY (1747 ...

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 448 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MARQUIS DE See also:FRANCOIS See also:BARTHELEMY (1747 or 1750-1830)  , See also:French politician, was educated by his See also:uncle the See also:abbe See also:Jean Jacques See also: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 See also: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) .

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