BARTHELEMY, Jean Jacques, French antiquarian : b. Cassis, near Marseilles, 20 Jan. 1716; d. 30 April 1795. He received a good edu cation from the fathers of the oratory at Mar seilles, and was about to prepare himself, under the Jesuits, for holy orders, but becoming dis gusted with his teachers declined all offers of clerical promotion, and only accepted the title of abbe in order to show that he, belonged to this class. He became deeply interested in the study of Oriental languages and antiquities, and his indefatigable industry and acuteness soon enabled him to communicate to the learned new discoveries in this Oriental study, among which the 'Alphabet of Palmyra,' published 1754, holds a principal place. In 1747 he was chosen member of the Academy of Inscriptions at Paris. About this time he became acquainted with the Count Stainville (afterward 'the minis ter Choiseul), who was on the point of depart ing as Ambassador for Rome, and who invited Barthelemy to accompany him. • Having been appointed director of tht Cabinet of Medals in 1753, he accepted the offer and went, in 1754, to Rome. He traveled through Italy, collected an tiquities, and occupied himself after his return with learned works and with the arrangement of the cabinet which had been entrusted to his care, and to which he added a great number of costly and rare medals. Among his works none are so distinguished for learning and beauty of description as the
In 1789 he received a place in the Academie Francaise. In 1793 he was arrested on a charge of aristocratic leanings, but was soon after set at liberty. When the chief librarian of the National Library, the notorious Carra, was ex ecuted, 31 Oct. 1793, Barthelemy received the offer of his place but declined it.
Jules, French politician and philosopher: b. Paris, 19 Aug. 1805; d. there, 24 Nov. 1895. On completing his studies he received an ap pointment in the Ministry of Finance, being at that time also on the staff of Le Globe news paper. After the revolution of 1830 he founded a journal called Bon Sens, and continued to support the Liberal party in the press. In 1834 he became examiner in French literature at the Ecole Polytechnique, and four years later he was appointed to the chair of Greek and Latin philosophy in the College de France. He played a part on the side of the Moderate party in the revolution of 1848, and was elected to the Constituent Assembly for Seine-et-Oise. The coup d'itat of December 1852 caused him to forsake political life for a considerable time and to resign his professorship. From this retiren'ient he emerged in 1869, the year of his election as deputy for the first circumscription of Seine-et-Oise. He was shortly aften,vard sent to the National Assembly as the representa tive of that department, and during the disas trous times of 1870-71 he was closely associated with M. Thiers. In 1875 he became a life senator, and in the Cabinet of M. Jules Ferry, constituted 1880, he was appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs. The chief event of his tenure of this office was the occupation of Tunis. In 1881 he again abandoned public life for study and literary work. His greatest work is his complete French version of Aristotle (1837-93).