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MEDERIC 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
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He came to See also: Paris at the age of nineteen, and became an avocat at the See also: parlement of Paris
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He subsequently returned to Martinique to practise See also: law, and in 178o was appointed member of the colonial council of See also: San Domingo
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Returning to Paris in 1784, he received a 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
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In 1789 he was president of the See also: assembly of the electors of Paris, played an active See also: part in the early days of the Revolution, and was designated by Martinique deputy to the Constituent Assembly
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His moderate ideas were the occasion of his arrest after the loth of See also: August 1992, but he contrived to 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)
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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
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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
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From that date until his See also: death he lived on a pension paid him by the Empress Josephine, who was a kinswoman of his
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See 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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