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BARTH, or BAERT (bärt), JEAN, a French sailor, born at Dun- , a French sailor, born at Dunkirk, 1650, the son of a poor fisherman.

He became captain of a privateer, and was appointed captain in the Royal Navy service was made commodore and ennobled . He made the French navy everywhere respected, and chapters in the romance of raval warfare. After the peace of Ryswick, he lived quietly at Dunkirk, and died there in 1702.

BARTHÉLEMY, JEAN JACQUES, Provence, Jan. 20, 1716; won European a French antiquarian, born at Cassis, fame with his "Travels of Young Anapicture of domestic and social life in charsis in Greece" (1788), a fascinating ancient Greece. As a romancer he wrote and Polydorus" (1760). He died in Paris, April 30, 1795. (bär-tōl-de'), a French sculptor, born in

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