BARTHEL, Melchior, German sculptor : b. Dresden 1625; d. 1672. He studied under his father and under Johann Boehme. He spent many years in Italy, including 17 in Venice, and on his return to Dresden was made court sculptor. His chief works are the tomb of the Doge, Giovanni Pesaro in Santa Maria dei Frari, Venice; the statue ofJohn the Baptist in the Oratory of Santa Maria, Nazareth, and a tomb in the church of SS. Giovanni e Paolo, Venice. There are numerous ivory carvings by him in the Green Vault at Dresden, which are regarded as superior to his larger works.
BARTHELEMY, Auguste Marseille, French poet and politician: b. Mar seilles 1796; d. there, 23 Aug. 1867. Educated at the Jesuit College of Juilly, he went to Paris in 1822, and soon made himself famous by a series of vigorous and pointed political satires in verse, directed against the Bourbons, and full of suggestive regrets for the glories of the empire. In 'Napoleon in Egypt' (1828), and
still more in his elegy for Napoleon's son, 'The Son of the Man' (1829), he Spoke out his im perialism more boldly, and the publication of the latter poem occasioned his imprisonment on the eve of the revolution of July. His libera tion was, of course, immediate; and with his friend Mery, he celebrated the victory of the people in a poem dedicated to the Parisians, entitled 'The Insurrection.' During all the changes which followed, Barthelemy was in defatigable as a brilliant versifier on the political events of the day; though in his later years his popularity somewhat declined. He was from the first a warm supporter of the second Na poleonic regime. Some of his sayings are memorable, as the oft-quoted absurde est celui qui ne change• janiais.)) . He died in Marseilles, of which city he was: librarian.