He became librarian successively to the French Directory, to the Conseil d'Etat, and in 1807 to Napoleon, from whom he carried out a number of commissions.
The Dictionnaire des ouvrages anonymes et pseudonymes is a four volume (1806—1809) dictionary by Antoine Alexandre Barbier listing pen names for French and Latin authors.
Alexandre Dumas | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | Antoine Watteau | Antoine de Caunes | Alexandre Benois | Antoine Brumel | Antoine Walker | Antoine Lavoisier | Marc-Antoine Charpentier | Antoine-Louis Barye | Alexandre Guilmant | Marc Antoine | Louis Antoine de Bougainville | Antoine, Duke of Lorraine | Antoine Bourdelle | Antoine | Alexandre Yersin | Pierre Charles Alexandre Louis | Jacques Antoine | Antoine Guichenot | Antoine Grumbach | Alexandre Pires | Alexandre Herculano | Alexandre Dumas, fils | Alexandre Barbera-Ivanoff | Alexandre-Antonin Taché | Rosa 'Albéric Barbier' | Louis-Alexandre Taschereau | François-Antoine Devaux | Édouard-Louis-Antoine-Charles Juchereau Duchesnay |