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MEDERIC LOUIS MOREAU DE SAINT MERY

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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 828 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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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 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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