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
(Saint Barthelemy Day) |
Population:
7,086 (2024)
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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:
French, Portuguese, Caribbean,
Afro-Caribbean
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Total Police
Force: 11 (2012)
Defense is the
Responsibility of France
Merchant marine:
None (2024)
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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 in
honor of
his
brother Bartolomeo's namesake saint.
1648
French possession (Saint-Barthélemy),
first
settlement from Saint
Christopher.
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).
1656
Settlement attacked and massacred by
Caribs.
1659
Beginning of permanent settlement of
St. Barth.
10 Aug
1665
Knights of Malta agree to sell their
rights to
Compagnie Française des
Indes Occidentales
(effected 4 Jan 1666).
4 Jan 1666
- 7 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.
7 Mar 1785 - 16 Mar
1878 Swedish colony
(Sankt Barthélemy)(by treaty of
1
Jul 1784 with France).
1786 -
1806
Under Swedish West India Company (Svenska
Västindiska Kompaniet)
administration.
21 Mar 1801 - 10 Jul
1802 British occupation (Saint
Bartholomew).
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? - 7 Mar 1785
Jean Sébastien, chevalier de
Durat (b. 1757 - d. 1814)
(interim governor)
1784? - 7 Mar 1785
Laurent François Isnard (commander)(d. 1787)
Governors
7 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)
21 Mar 1801 - 10 Jul 1802 Sir Thomas
Trigge -U.K. commander (b.
1741 - d. 1814)
Mar 1801 - Jul 1801 John
Wilson -U.K. military governor(b. c.1764 - d.
1818)
Aug 1801 - Jul
1802 John
Gordon -U.K. military governor
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 was from 9 Jul 2007, 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
Territorial
Disputes:
None identified.
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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