MEDERIC See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
LOUIS See also:MOREAU DE See also:SAINT MERY
It See also:LIE (1750-1819), See also:French politician, was See also:born at Fort de See also:France, in the See also:island of See also:Martinique, on the 28th of See also:January 1750
.
He came to See also:Paris at the See also:age of nineteen, and became an avocat at the See also:parlement of Paris
.
He subsequently returned to Martinique to practise See also:law, and in 178o was appointed member of the colonial See also:council of See also:San Domingo
.
Returning to Paris in 1784, he received a See also:commission to study the legislation of the French colonies, and published Lois et constitutions See also:des colonies frangaises de l'Amerique sous le Vent de 1S5o d 1785
.
In 1789 he was See also:president of the See also:assembly of the See also:electors of Paris, played an active See also:part in the See also:early days of the Revolution, and was designated by Martinique See also:deputy to the Constituent Assembly
.
His moderate ideas were the occasion of his See also:arrest after the loth of See also:August 1992, but he contrived to See also:- ESCAPE (in mid. Eng. eschape or escape, from the O. Fr. eschapper, modern echapper, and escaper, low Lat. escapium, from ex, out of, and cappa, cape, cloak; cf. for the sense development the Gr. iichueoOat, literally to put off one's clothes, hence to sli
escape to the See also:United States, opened
a bookseller's See also:shop at See also:Philadelphia, and published Description topographique et politique de in partie espagnole et de la partie francaise de See also:file de See also:Saint-Domingue (1796—1798)
.
Returning to France in 1799, he became historiographer to the See also:navy and councillor of See also:state, and drafted in part the colonial and maritime See also:code
.
In 18oa he was appointed by the First See also:Consul See also:administrator of the duchies of See also:Parma, See also:Piacenza, and See also:Guastalla, but was dismissed in 1806 for slackness in repressing insubordination
.
From that date until his See also:death he lived on a See also:pension paid him by the Empress See also:Josephine, who was a kinswoman of his
.
See See also:Fournier-Tescay, Discours prononce aux obsIques de See also:Moreau le 30 Janvier 1819; See also:Silvestre, See also:Notice sur Moreau (Paris, 1819)
.
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