FRENCH BALTHALONES

JEAN BALTHALON

Member of Chamber of Commerce in Marceille

in 1705, 1707, 1719, 1721

Source:
https://books.google.com/books?id=7jxyAAAAMAAJ&q=balthalon&dq=balthalon&
hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjOjpjxyNvXAhXnqFQKHY3eCysQ6AEIPjAE

As of 1722, Jean Balthalon was trading wine

Source, page 27:

http://www.marseille.fr/siteculture/document?id=15753&id_attribute=48

des Pennes et de Septèmes au sujet de la délimitation du territoire ; — la

nomination en qualité d'éche - vins de Jean Balthalon

Also in 1727

Source: La chambre de commerce de Marseille: son origine-sa mission …

Page 8, footnote (I), also see page 378

https://books.google.com/books?id=J4mBAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA378&dq=balthalon&hl
=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiEmqzPztvXAhWrhVQKHY6wAb44HhDoAQhIMAU#v=on
epage&q=balthalon&f=false

The Chamber itself exists since 1599. The port of Marseille is awarded, by a royal
edict, the monopoly of the French trade in 1669.

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chambre_de_commerce_et_d%27industrie_Marseille-
Provence

ANTOINE BALTHALON

Involved in bankruptcy in 1710

Source: https://en.geneanet.org/archives/releves/depgn2790/4577

PIERRE BALTHALON
1753-1830

Source:

https://books.google.com/books?id=1GeQBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA1854-
IA76&dq=balthalon&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiysrHTytvXAhUqxFQKHRU6AtI4C
hDoAQgnMAA#v=onepage&q=balthalon&f=false
Book: Jomard, le dernier Égyptien
See “MS 508” reference, also page 1810 (not in google preview)

in 1803 - member of Chamber of Commerce in Marseille

Source:

https://books.google.com/books?id=nXxRAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA7&dq=Balthalon+Fruc
tidor&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi6qcq_ydvXAhWHhVQKHWdbAhYQ6AEIRzAE#v
=onepage&q=Balthalon%20Fructidor&f=false

Administrator of Le Mont de Piété de Marseille

Source:
https://books.google.com/books?id=rlhRAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA197&lpg=PA197&dq=n
%C3%A9gociants++Marseille+balthalon&source=bl&ots=MCFEW3ckHU&sig=sSsvT
8lfVbecAgCnO7qPLkSqRWE&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiX2K3CwIbbAhVIjFQKHT
ngBKQQ6AEIVTAH#v=onepage&q=n%C3%A9gociants%20%20Marseille%20balth
alon&f=false

History of Mont de Piete:

https://www.credit-municipal-marseille.fr/fr/histoire.php

The trading house was called JOSEPH et Co. de Marseille

Source:
Publications de la Société d'histoire contemporaine, Volume 24, page 15 for year 1799

https://books.google.com/books?id=ysg4AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA15&dq=Balthalon+Fru
ctidor&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi6qcq_ydvXAhWHhVQKHWdbAhYQ6AEIOTAC#
v=onepage&q=Balthalon%20Fructidor&f=false

It was at some point also called “Balthalon brothers”

http://www.levantineheritage.com/pdf/Archives-CCIMP-Patrick-Boulanger-
2015.pdf
Fonds annexes (XVIIe-XXe siècles) - Balthalon frères.

Same letter cited here: Kléber et Menou en Egypte depuis le départ de Bonaparte (août
1799-septembre ...
https://books.google.com/books?id=ysg4AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA15&dq=Balthalon+Fru
ctidor&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi6qcq_ydvXAhWHhVQKHWdbAhYQ6AEIOTAC#
v=onepage&q=Balthalon%20Fructidor&f=false

A long list of books and articles about Drovetti:

http://www.comune.barbania.to.it/component/content/article/114-bernardino-
drovetti/158-bernardino-drovetti-411776-931852

Article about Napoleon Egypt exhibition:

http://scholarship.shu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1037&context=theses

PIERRE is also sometimes named is PIERRE-CLEMENT BALTHALON

Source:
https://books.google.com/books?id=7jxyAAAAMAAJ&q=balthalon&dq=balthalon&
hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjOjpjxyNvXAhXnqFQKHY3eCysQ6AEIPjAE

JOSEPH BALTHALON (we suspect Joseph to be the Pierre’s brother)

We suspect his years of life to be 1755-1825 – see here, calling him Jean-Joseph:

is mentioned as brother to Pierre-Clement here, by Fabien Bartolotti:

https://www.academia.edu/19664719/Les_milieux_daffaires_marseillais_et_la_rout
e_de_Suez_de_la_fin_du_XVIIIe_si%C3%A8cle_%C3%A0_1858._Acteurs_enjeux_et_re
pr%C3%A9sentations
Says: Witness the case of Pierre-Clément Balthalon (1753-1830)
established since 1774 and his Brother Jean-Joseph (1755-1825) arrived
in 1777

His wife was Rosine Rey, who later dropped Joseph and married Drovetti

https://books.google.com/books?id=PVe0iJ1WMCgC&pg=PA230&lpg=PA230&dq=
%22rosine+rey%22+drovetti&source=bl&ots=rIXgd5Zc5H&sig=dXgNa2Qbjs0VANil
WqRJCMNv4Pc&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj26_6uz9_XAhXKg1QKHR7DBNUQ6AE
IKDAA#v=onepage&q=%22rosine%20rey%22%20drovetti&f=false

http://www.brepolsonline.net/doi/abs/10.1484/J.CDE.2.309269?journalCode=cde

Joseph wrote something to the ministry on 16/09/1804

Source: Edge of Empire: Lives, Culture, and Conquest in the East, 1750-1850
Footnote No. 39
https://books.google.com/books?id=fx3obJai0RMC&pg=PT391&dq=balthalon&hl=
en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjOjpjxyNvXAhXnqFQKHY3eCysQ6AEIKDAA#v=onepage&q
=balthalon&f=false

How to translate the date of 29 Fructidor an XII:

http://archivesenligne.pasdecalais.fr/cg62v2/outils/calendrier/calendrier_rev_gre
g.php?annee=XII#

JOSEPH BALTHALON had a daughter CLÉMENCE BALTHALON (Joseph’s wife and

Clémence’s monther was Marguerite REIF), who married on 21/04/1825 François
DE LAMANTE, in Notre-Dame de Lorette (possibly in Paris, because the book-index
talks about “Parisiens” (link:
https://en.geneanet.org/archives/registres/view/?idcollection=29617&page=1),
unless it meant a similarly named place in Marseille: http://www.tourisme-
marseille.com/fiche/passage-de-lorette-marseille/)
Source: https://en.geneanet.org/archives/releves/depgn28834/12507
JEAN JOSEPH BALTHALON (father – Joseph, mother – Rosine Rey)

Alexandria, 17.05.1797- Paris, 23.06.1878

per this source: https://www.appl-lachaise.net/appl/article.php3?id_article=6046

Jean-Joseph WITH DIFFERENT LIFE SPAN (!) - 1755-1825 - is mentioned as brother

to Pierre-Clement here, by Fabien Bartolotti:

https://www.academia.edu/19664719/Les_milieux_daffaires_marseillais_et_la_rout
e_de_Suez_de_la_fin_du_XVIIIe_si%C3%A8cle_%C3%A0_1858._Acteurs_enjeux_et_re
pr%C3%A9sentations
Says: Witness the case of Pierre-Clément Balthalon (1753-1830)
established since 1774 and his Brother Jean-Joseph (1755-1825) arrived
in 1777

SOPHIE DE BALTHALON (we believe, Pierre’s younger sister) married Daniel Von
DUMREICHER and in 1830 gave birth to Ernest Emil Von DUMREICHER
https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:5fXp-
Kfxiu0J:https://search.ancestry.co.uk/cgi-
bin/sse.dll%3Fdb%3Dpubmembertrees%26rank%3D1%26sbo%3Dt%26gsbco%3DSwed
en%26gsln%3DDumreicher+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=firefox-b-ab

Daniel Von Dumreicher was the Danish Counsul in Alexandria

Link: http://exist.ghil.ac.uk:8079/Schimper/bibliography.html

J. BALTHALON in 1880 took part in litigation for damages claim over Egyptian
warehouse, indicating that the trade was at least up to 1880 still existing.

Source (in Swedish):

https://books.google.com/books?id=tGdMAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA1-
PA68&dq=balthalon&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiEmqzPztvXAhWrhVQKHY6wAb4
4HhDoAQg6MAM#v=onepage&q=balthalon&f=false

Partial translation by Google:

ett annat skadeståndskrav framstaldes af samma firma jemte en fransman

J. Balthalon derfor att, sedan desse uthyrt nagra magasin at en viss Hochstein,
hvilken emellertid i Constantinopel forsatts i konkurs, i foljd hvaraf magasinen
forseglatz, egyptiska regeringen vagrat tillmotesga Bröderna Dumreicher och deras
medparts begaran att pa …
Another claim for damages was made by the same company that a Frenchman
J. Balthalon hired since then rented a magazine that a certain
Hochstein, which in Constantinople was still in bankruptcy, in the
foothold of which the magazine was sealed, the Egyptian government
warned that Bröderna Dumreicher and their partner's request to …

Other info:

Balthalon archive is acquired by Louvre in 1997

Source:
https://books.google.com/books?id=VqIjAQAAMAAJ&dq=balthalon&focus=search
withinvolume&q=Jean+Balthalon

Obviously not the entire archive, since in 2011 20 letters were sold privately
Source: https://www.davidfeldman.com/auctions/browse-lots/aucP/auction-
series-gva-may-2011/item/117354/

Also, organizers of this Alexandria research had a presentation of Balthalon

correspondence a few years back (the presenter since passed away, in 2012)

http://www.cealex.org/sites/ottoman/ALEX_O_a_Renc0408_F.HTM

Daniel Panzac (Université de Provence-IREMAM) a présenté une source privée, la

correspondance d'une famille de négociants marseillais Balthalon établie à
Alexandrie à la fin du XVIIIe et au début du XIXe siècle
Daniel Panzac (University of Provence-IREMAM) presented a private
source, the correspondence of a family of merchants Balthalon Marseille
established in Alexandria in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth
century

http://iremam.cnrs.fr/spip.php?article407