Anatole Jean-Baptiste Antoine de Barthélemy

Anatole Jean-Baptiste Antoine de Barthélemy (1 July 1821 – 27 June 1904) 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.

This included several popular publications, such as the Nouveau manuel complet de numismatique ancienne (1851; second edition, revised, 1890), and the Nouveau Manuel complet de la numismatique du moyen âge et moderne (1853; new edition revised by Adrien Planchet), and a large number of monographs and articles in the technical reviews.

In 1897 he was elected a member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres.

[1] His younger brother, Édouard Marie, comte de Barthélemy, who was born in Angers in 1830, published a number of documents on the ancient French nobility and the history of Champagne.

Anatole Jean-Baptiste Antoine de Barthélemy