e recipient was
stopped. When the publication ceased there was a strong suspicion that
Barthelemy had been paid for his silence. In 1832 he published an anonymous
poem, supporting some acts of the government which were peculiarly
obnoxious to the Liberal party. This change of front destroyed his
influence and his later writings passed unnoticed. For the next few years
he enjoyed a handsome pension from the government and refrained from all
satirical writing. He again resumed his old style in 1844 but without the
former success. From that date he contented himself with merely occasional
poems. Barthelemy died on the 23rd of August 1867 at Marseilles. Joseph
Mery was an ardent romanticist and wrote a great number of stories now
forgotten. He produced several pieces at the Paris theatres, and also
collaborated with Gerard de Nerval in adaptations from Shakespeare and in
other plays. He received a pension from Napoleon III. and died in Paris on
the 16th of June 1866.

The _Oeuvres_ of Barthelemy and Mery were collected, with a notice by L.
Reybaud, in 1831 (4 vols.). See also _Barthelemy et Mery etudies
specialement dans leurs rapports avec la legende napoleonienne_, by Jules
Garsou in vol. lviii. of the Memoires of the Academie Royale ... de
Belgique, which contains full information on both authors.

BARTHELEMY, FRANCOIS, MARQUIS DE (1747 or 1750-1830), French politician,
was educated by his uncle the abbe Jean Jacques Barthelemy for a diplomatic
career, and after serving as secretary of legation in Sweden, in
Switzerland and in England, was appointed minister plenipotentiary in
Switzerland, in which capacity he negotiated the treaties of Basel with
Prussia and Spain (1795). Elected a member of the Directory in May 1797,
through royalist influence, he was arrested at the _coup d'etat_ of the 18
Fructidor (17th of September 1797) and deported to French Guiana, but
escaped and made his way to the United States and then to England. He
returned to France after the 18 Brumaire, entered the senate in February
1800 and contributed to the establishment of the consulship for life and
the empire. In 1814 he abandoned Napoleon, took part in the drawing up of
the constitutional charter and was named peer of France. During the Hundred
Days he lived in concealment, and after the second Restoration obtained the
title marquis, and in 1819 introduced a motion in the chamber of peers
tending to render the electoral law more aristocratic.