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MOREAU DE SAINT MERY, MEDERIC LOUIS It LIE (1750-1819), French politician, was born at Fort de France, in the island of Martinique, on the 28th of January 1750. He came to Paris at the age of nineteen, and became an avocat at the parlement of Paris. He subsequently returned to Martinique to practise law, and in 178o was appointed member of the colonial council of San Domingo. Returning to Paris in 1784, he received a commission to study the legislation of the French colonies, and published Lois et constitutions des colonies frangaises de l'Amerique sous le Vent de 1S5o d 1785. In 1789 he was president of the assembly of the electors of Paris, played an active part
deputy to the Constituent Assembly. His moderate ideas were the occasion of his arrest after the loth of August 1992, but he contrived to escape to the United States, openeda bookseller's shop at Philadelphia, and published Description topographique et politique de in partie espagnole et de la partie francaise de file de Saint-Domingue (17961798). Returning to France in 1799, he became historiographer to the navy and councillor of state, and drafted in part
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See Fournier-Tescay, Discours prononce aux obsIques de Moreau le 30 Janvier 1819; Silvestre, Notice sur Moreau (Paris, 1819). End of Article: MOREAU DE SAINT MERY, MEDERIC LOUIS If you wish, you can link directly to this article.
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