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François-Marie Barthélemy
b. 20 Oct 1747, Aubagne, Bouches-du-Rhône
d. 3 Apr 1830, Paris |
| Title: |
Membre du Directoire exécutif de la République française (Member of the Executive Directory of the French Republic) |
| Term: |
6 Jun 1797 - 5 Sep 1797 |
| Chronology: |
24 May 1797, ten candidates for election of a member of the Directoire exécutif (Executive Directory) nominated by the Conseil des Cinq-Cents (Council of Five Hundred) and the list passed to the Conseil des Anciens (Council of Ancients) [1] |
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26 May 1797, elected and proclaimed member of the Executive Directory by the Council of Ancients, session of the Council, salle des Machines, Palais des Tuileries, Paris [2] |
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6 Jun 1797, installed as a member of the Directory, meeting of the Executive Directory, Palais du Luxembourg, Paris [3][4][5] |
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5 Sep 1797, condemned to exile by Art. XIII of the Law on Public Salvation passed by the Council of Ancients [6][7]; membership in the Directory implicitly revoked |
| Names/titles: |
Comte Barthélemy, comte de l'Empire (count Barthélemy, as count of the Empire) [from 26 Apr 1808]; marquis de Barthélemy (marquis of Barthélemy) [from 2 May 1818] |
| Biography: |
Nephew of popular author and archaeologist Jean-Jacques Barthélemy, who helped him to receive a job in the foreign affairs department; served on diplomatic missions in Sweden, Switzerland and Great Britain; appointed minister to the Swiss cantons (1791-1797) and was instrumental in negotiating the Treaties of Basel (1795) with Prussia, Spain and Hessen; elected (26 May 1797) member of the Directoire exécutif (Executive Directory) to replace Étienne-François Le Tourneur; was a moderate democrat with royalist leanings, sided with of Lazare Carnot; arrested during the coup d'état of 18 Fructidor, Year V (4 Sep 1797); condemned to exile and expelled from the Directory (5 Sep 1797); deported to French Guiana, escaped to the United States and then moved to Great Britain; put on the lists of émigrés and could not return to France until the coup of 18 Brumaire (9 Nov 1799); during the Consulate was named a member of the Sénat conservateur (24 Jan 1800) and a commander in the Legion of Honor (2 Oct 1803); created count of the Empire (26 Apr 1808); as vice president of the Sénat, presided at the meeting of this body, which voted the deposition of Napoléon Ier (2 Apr 1814); went over to the Bourbons; appointed to the committee on drafting the Constitutional Charter (1814); created a peer of France (4 Jun 1814); after the second Restoration entered the Chambre des pairs (Chamber of Peers); appointed minister of state (5 Oct 1815) and created marquis (2 May 1818). Biography source: [6] |
| Elections: |
| Candidate |
Vote (26 May 1797) |
| François-Marie Barthélemy |
138 |
| 9 others: |
80 |
| Charles Cochon de Lapparent |
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| Louis-Antoine Bougainville |
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| René-Louis-Marie Viellart |
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| Jean-Claude Redon de Beaupréau |
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| Louis-Hardouin Tarbé |
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| Germain Garnier |
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| Pardoux Bordas |
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| Jean-Nicolas Desmeunier |
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| Pierre Riel de Beurnonville |
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| total votes cast |
218 |
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| Information source: [2]
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| [1] |
Gazette nationale ou Le Moniteur universel, No. 249, 9 prairial an V. |
| [2] |
Bulletin des lois de la République, No. 124, pp. 15-16. |
| [3] |
Les procès-verbaux du Directoire exécutif, an V - an VIII. Inventaire des registres des delibérations et des minutes des arrêtés, lettres et actes du Directoire faisant suite au Recueil des actes du Directoire exécutif d'Antonin Debidour, ed. by Pierre-Dominique Cheynet (Paris: Centre historique des Archives nationales, 2000-)., vol II, p. 23. |
| [4] |
Gazette nationale ou Le Moniteur universel, No. 260, 20 prairial an VI. |
| [5] |
Neither the Constitution of the Year III, nor the Law of 30 floréal of the Year V provided a rule for determining the beginning of a director's term. Barthélemy, who was absent from France, could not be installed immediately upon his nomination (aussitôt après sa nomination) as required by the Law of 30 floréal. |
| [6] |
Corps législatif: Procès-verbal des séances du Conseil des Anciens (Paris: Imprimerie nationale), Fructidor, an V, p. 304. |
| [7] |
Bulletin des lois de la République, No. 142, p. 11. |
| [8] |
Dictionnaire des parlementaires français 1789-1889, |
