page_title: Barthélemy Hervart
section_title: Career
hierarchical_section_title: Barthélemy Hervart / Career
caption_attribution_description: English: Bernhard, duke of Saxe-Weimar http://www.futura-dtp.dk/SLAG/Personer/NavneB/Bernhard.htm
context_page_description: Barthélemy Hervart or Herwart was a Huguenot banker. He saved the French monarchy on several occasions during the Fronde, the series of civil wars in France in the mid-17th century, by means of important loans, and during the period of the fall of Louis XIV's Superintendent of Finance Nicolas Fouquet.
  Along with his brother and several other partners, Hervart took part in the financing of the salt marsh drainage project in Arles and Les Baux.
caption: Bernard of Saxe-Weimar.
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