Saint-Barthélemy
Map
of Saint-Barthélemy
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Hear
National Anthem
"La Marseillaise"
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Local
Anthem
"L'Hymne
à Saint-Barthélemy"
(Hymn to St. Barthelemy)
Adopted 11 Dec 1999
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Constitution
(28 Sep 1958)
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Capital:
Gustavia
(Le Carénage to 1786)
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Currency:
Euro (EUR);
to 1 Jan 2002 French
Franc
(FRF)
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National
Holiday: 14 Jul (1789)
Fête Nationale
(National Holiday
"Bastille Day")
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Local Holiday: 24
Aug (1572)
Fête de
la Saint-Barthélemy
(St. Barthelemy Day) |
Population:
10,967 (2021)
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GDP: $487
million (2014)
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Exports: $22.9 million (2017)
Imports: $123
million (2017)
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Ethnic groups:
white, Creole (mulatto), black,
Guadeloupe Mestizo
(French-East Asian)
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Total Police
Force: 11 (2012)
Defense is the
Responsibility of France
Merchant marine:
None (2023)
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Religions:
Roman Catholic, Protestant (Anglican
and Pentecostal), Jehovah's Witnesses
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International
Organizations/Treaties: ACS
(associate), UPU |
Saint-
Barthélemy
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Chronology
1493
Discovered and claimed for Spain by
Christopher
Columbus named Isla de
San Bartolomeo.
1648
French possession (Saint-Barthélemy).
24 May
1651
Compagnie des Îles de
l'Amérique sells right
to
administer
Saint-Barthélemy (and other islands)
to the Knights of Malta.
24 May 1651 -
4 Jan 1666 Administered by the
Knights of Malta (abandoned
1656-1659).
10 Aug
1665
Knights of Malta agree to sell their
rights to
Compagnie Française des
Indes Occidentales
(effected 4 Jan 1666).
4 Jan 1666
- 6 Mar 1785 Saint-Barthélemy
a dependency of Guadeloupe.
4 Jan 1690 - 26
Jan 1690 English occupation
(Saint Bartholomew), French
settlers are deported.
26 Jan 1690 - 1698
Abandoned.
1744 -
1748
British occupation averted when
islanders sign
a declaration
of neutrality.
Jan 1779
- 28 Feb 1779
British raids destroy French defenses.
17 Mar
1781 - 26 Nov 1781 British
occupation (Saint Bartholomew).
1 Jul
1784
France agrees to sell the island to
Sweden.
6 Mar 1785 - 16
Mar 1878 Swedish colony
(Sankt Barthélemy).
1786 -
1806
Under Swedish West India Company (Svenska
Västindiska Kompaniet)
administration.
20 Mar 1801 - 10 Jul
1802 British occupation.
1812 - 1845
Personal property of the
King of Sweden.
10 Aug
1877
Sweden agrees to sell the island to
France.
16 Mar
1878
French possession.
16 Mar 1848 - 10 Feb 2025 Part
of Guadeloupe
département.
24 Jun
1940 - 14 Jul 1943
Administration loyal to Vichy France
(from 14 Jul 1943, under Free French).
19 Mar 1946 -
7 Feb 1963 Saint-Barthélemy made
a canton of département
of
Guadeloupe
arrondissement
La Basse-Terre.
7 Feb 1963
- 9 Jul 2007
Saint-Barthélemy within Guadeloupe as
part of the
arrondissement of
Saint-Martin et Saint-Barthélemy
(des Îles du Nord)(see under Saint-Martin).
7
Dec
2003
Saint-Barthélemy votes to become a
separate
overseas collectivité
of France by 95.5%.
9 Jul
2007
Saint-Barthélemy a
separate French overseas
collectivité
(Collectivité de Saint-Barthélemy).
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Commandants
1648 - 1656
Jacques Gente
1656 - 1659
abandoned
16.. - 1 Jan
1666
sieur du Guery
1 Jan 1666 - 16..
sieur Beauplan
1673 - 16..
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c.1687
Legrand
(captain-commandant)
1687/88 - 4 Jan 1690
Henri Charles de Vaultier, sieur (d. 1690)
de Moyencourt
4 Jan 1690 - 26 Jan 1690 Sir
Timothy Thornhill
(b. 1648? - d. 1693)
(English commander)
26 Jan 1690 - 1698
abandoned
31 Mar 1698 (1 day)
de la Hogue
(d. 1700)
(held title to 19 Dec 1700)
1 Apr 1698 - af.1700
Vacant
1713 - 1719?
Alexandre Vaultier de
Moyencourt, (b. 1658 - d. 1728)
comte de Moyencourt
c.1720 -
c.1730?
Jacques Gréaux
c.1732
Christophe Mahieu
17.. -
1744
Jacques Gréaux, Jr.
(d. 1744)
1744 - c.1746
Véret (acting)
c.1750
Gréaux
1757 - 1763
Vacant
1763 -
1764
Alexis Brin (acting)
1764 -
1771
René Camille,
comte de Carné de (b. 1719 - d.
1785)
Trécesson
1771 -
c.1774
Pierre Bernier
6 Jun 1775 - Jan 1784
Alexandre René d'Agneau-Douville (b. 1736 - d.
1789)
17 Mar 1781 - 26 Nov 1781
Lawrence Graeme -British commander
1784? - Mar 1785
Isnard (acting)
Governors
6 Mar 1785 - 23 Apr 1787 Salomon
Mauritz von
Rajalin (b.
1757 - d. 1825)
23 Apr 1787 - 6 Jun 1790 Pehr
Herman Rosen von Rosenstein (b. 1763 - d.
1799)
6 Jun 1790 - 17 Nov 1795 Carl
Fredrik Bagge af Söderby
(b. 1750 - d. 1828)
17 Nov 1795 - 26 Jan 1801 Georg Henrik
Johan af Trolle (b.
1763 - d. 1824)
26 Jan 1801 - 14 Feb 1812 Hans Henrik
Anckerheim
(b. 1748 - d. 1814)
20 Mar 1801 - Mar
1802 Sir Thomas Trigge -U.K.
commander (b. 1741 - d.
1814)
Mar 1802 - 10 Jul 1802 ....
-U.K. commander
14 Feb 1812 - 10 Aug 1816 Bernd Robert Gustaf
Stackelberg (b. 1784 - d. 1845)
10 Aug 1816 - 10 Dec 1818 Johan Samuel
Rosensvärd
(b. 1782 - d. 1818)
19 Sep 1818 - 20 Aug 1819 Carl Fredrik
Berghult
(b. 1794 - d. 1834)
(acting [for Rosensvärd to 10 Dec 1818])
20 Aug 1819 - 27 Apr 1826 Johan
Norderling
(b. 1760 - d. 1828)
27 Apr 1826 - 11 Oct 1833 James Haarlef
Haasum
(b. 1791 - d. 1871)
+ Lars Gustaf
Morsing
(b. 1794 - d. 1860)
11 Oct 1833 - Dec 1860 James Haarlef
Haasum
(s.a.)
Dec 1860 - 11 Aug 1868 Fredrik
Carl
Ulrich
(b. 1808 - d. 1868)
11 Aug 1868 - 4 Dec 1868 Georg Wilhelm
Netherwood (acting) (b. 1828 - d. 1903)
4 Dec 1868 - 16 Mar 1878 Bror
Ludvig
Ulrich
(b. 1818 - d. 1887)
(acting to 10 Sep 1870)
Prefects to the State
Representative in the Collectivités of
Saint-Martin
and
of Saint-Barthélemy
(until 10 Feb
2025, Préfets délégués auprès du représentant de
l'État dans les collectivités de Saint-Martin
et de Saint-Barthélemy
[delegated to the
prefect of Guadeloupe, who from 9 Jul 2007, is also
Representative of the State in the Collectivité
of Saint-Barthélemy])
9 Jul 2007 -
the
prefects of Saint-Martin
Mayors
1878 -
1900
Hippolyte Duchatellard
(b. 1833 - d. 1910)
1900 -
1913
Jean-Bertrand Sourd
(b. 1859 - d. 1918)
1913 -
1919
Louis Déravin
1919 -
1925
Théodore Lédée
(b. c.1840
- d. 19..)
1925 -
1927
Adolphe
Leroy
1927 -
1929
Eugène Magras
1929 - 1931
Ruben Déravin (1st time)
(b. 1870 - d. 1941)
1931 - 1933
Stephan Tara
1933 - 1941
Ruben Déravin (2nd time)
(s.a.)
1941 -
1942
Clément Lédée (1st time)
1942 -
1943
Jean Lédée
1943 -
1944
Clément Lédée (2nd time)
1944 -
1947
Raynal Rosey (delegate to 1945) (b. 1901 -
d. 1950) Ind;1947 RI
1947 -
1962
Alexandre Magras
(b. 1917 - d.
2016)
1962 -
1977
Rémy de Haenen
(b. 1916 - d. 2008) UNR + DVD
Mar 1977 - Mar
1983 Charles
Querrard
(b. 1948)
8 Mar 1983 - 1995
Daniel
Blanchard
(b. 1946)
MAPA-SB
Jun 1995 - 15 Jul 2007 Bruno
Magras
(b. 1951)
MAPA-SB/UMP
Presidents of the Territorial Council
15 Jul 2007 - 3 Apr 2022 Bruno
Magras
(s.a.)
SBA+UMP;2015 LR
3 Apr 2022 -
Xavier Lédée
(b.
1980) UPS
Party abbreviations: DVD =
Divers Droite (Diverse
Right, right-wing candidates not members of any
large party); Ind =
Indépendant (Independent); LR
= Les Républicains (The Republicans, center-right,
former UMP, est.30 May 2015); SBA
= Saint-Barth d'Abord! (Saint Barth
First!, liberal conservative, Francophile,
St. Barth regionalist, Bruno Magras election list, affiliated
with UMP/LR, est.2007); UPS =
Unis pour Saint-Barthélemy (United for Saint
Barthelemy, Xavier Lédée election list, est.2017);
- Former parties:
MAPA-SB = Mouvement pour le Progrès et l'Avenir
de St.-Barth (Movement for Action and Progress for the
Future of Saint Barth, conservative, est.1973?); RI =
Républicain Indépendant (Republican Independent); UMP
= Union pour un Mouvement Populaire (Union for a Popular
Movement [to 17 Nov 2002: Union for the Presidential
Majority], conservative, merger of
RPR, DL and the main part of UDF, 23
Apr 2002-30 May 2015, renamed
LR); UNR = Union pour
la Nouvelle République (Union for the New Republic,
Gaullist, conservative, 1958-1968)
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