Famous People with Name Barthelemy

Barthélemy Faujas De Saint-Fond            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Barthélemy Faujas De Saint-Fond: French geologist and traveller, was born at Montélimar. He was educated at the Jesuit's College at Lyon; afterwards he went to Grenoble where he studied law and was admitted as an advocate to the parlement.He rose to be president of the seneschal's court in Montélimar (1765), where he acquitted himself with distinction. However, he became disenchanted with law and wished to pursue his love of nature that had begun earlier in his life. His favorite pastime was visiting the mountain regions in the Alps and Massif Central. There be began to study the forms, structure, composition and superposition of rocks.

Barthélemy Prieur            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Barthélemy Prieur: was a French sculptor.Prieur was born in Berzieux, Champagne (now in the Marne). He traveled to Italy, where he worked from 1564 to 1568 for Emmanuel Philibert, Duke of Savoy in Turin. Upon his return to France, he worked principally on funerary monuments and busts, but also on small bronzes.

Barthélemy Pitrot            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Barthélemy Pitrot: was a French actor and dancer who criss-crossed the French provinces and the Southern Netherlands in the first half of the 18th century. He was the father of the dancers Antoine and Jean-Baptiste Pitrot.

Barthelemy Lafon            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Barthelemy Lafon: was a notable architect, engineer, city planner and surveyor in New Orleans, Louisiana. In later life, he turned away from architecture and engaged in piracy and smuggling. After the Louisiana Purchase in 1803, with the Mississippi River open to free trade, landowners upriver from the Vieux Carre realized that the old quarter dominated by the Spanish and French could not contain the hordes of Americans who were now flooding the city

Barthélemy Vimont            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Barthélemy Vimont: was a French Jesuit missionary in New France, North America. Father Vimont first arrived in North America as part of a flotilla of four ships and a bark commanded by Charles Daniel in August of 1629. Caught in a storm off the Newfoundland Banks, the ships were scattered with one ship carrying Vimont and the Captain making it to Cape Breton Island. Fort Sainte Anne was established and Vimont began his missionary work but was recalled to France the following year.

Honoré Barthélemy            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Honoré Barthélemy: was a French road bicycle racer who took part and finished fifth overall and won four stages in the 1919 Tour de France. He was born in Paris, France.In 1920, says the Yellow Jersey Guide to the Tour de France, he crashed on the stage to Aix-en-Provence a

Anatole Jean-Baptiste Antoine De Barthélemy            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Anatole Jean-Baptiste Antoine De Barthélemy: was a French archaeologist and numismatist.In collaboration with J. Geslin de Bourgogne he published Études sur la Révolution en Bretagne in 1858, and between 1855 and 1879 an exhaustive work in six volumes on the Anciens évêchés de Bretagne; histoire et monuments. In 1880 appeared the Choix de documents inédits sur l'histoire de la ligue en Bretagne, by himself alone. But it was, above all, his numismatical work which established his reputation. This included several popular publications,

Jean-Jacques Barthélemy            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Jean-Jacques Barthélemy: was a French writer and numismatist. In 1744 he went to Paris with a letter of introduction to Claude Gros de Boze, Perpetual Secretary of the Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres and Keeper of the Royal Collection of Medals. He became assistant to de Boze and in 1753 succeeded him in this post, remaining in this position until the Revolution. During his term of office he nearly doubled the size of the collection.

Laure Barthélémy            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Laure Barthélémy: is a French cross country skier who has competed since 2005. Barthélémy also competed in one Winter Olympics, earning her best finish of fifth in the team sprint event with Karine Laurent Philippot at Vancouver in 2010. She also finished first in the spri

Joseph Barthélemy            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Joseph Barthélemy: was a French jurist, politician and journalist. Initially a critic of Nazi Germany, he would go on to serve as a minister in the collaborationist Vichy regime.