MOREAU DE SAINT MERY, MEDERIC LOUIS ELIE (1750-1819), French politician, was born at Fort de France, in the island of Martinique, on Jan. 28, 1750. He came to Paris at the age of 19, and became an avocat at the parlement of Paris. He returned to Martinique to practise law, and in 1780 was appointed member of the colonial council of San Domingo. Returning to Paris in 1784, he was commissioned to study the legislation of the French colonies. In 1789 he was president of the assembly of the electors of Paris and represented Martinique in the Constituent Assembly. His moderate ideas caused his arrest after Aug. 1o, 1792, but he escaped to the United States, and opened a bookseller's shop at Philadelphia. Returning to France in 1799, he became historiographer to the navy and councillor of state, and drafted in part the colonial and maritime code. In 18o2 he was appointed by the first council administrator of the duchies of Parma, Piacenza, and Guastalla, but was dismissed in i8o6 and lived until his death on a pension paid him by the Empress Josephine, a kinswoman of his.
He published Lois et constitutions des colonies francaises de l'Amerique sous le Vent de 1550 a and Description topographique et politique de la partie espagnole et de la partie francaise de Vile de Saint-Domingue (1796-98).
See Fournier-Tescay, Discours prononce aux obseques de Moreau le 30 Janvier 1819; Silvestre, Notice sur Moreau (1819). MORECAMBE, municipal borough, watering place and minor seaport, Lancaster parliamentary division, England, on Morecambe bay, 236 m. N.W. from London by the L.M.S. railway. Pop. (1931) 24,58b. A promenade extends along the shore; there are a quay, a pier, and a winter garden. The L.M.S. railway is the harbour authority. The town was incorporated in 1902. The former alternative name was Poulton-le-Sands. MOREL, the surname of several French classical scholars and printers in the 16th and 17th centuries, known for their editions of classical authors and the Fathers. (I) GUILLAUME
MOREL (1505-1564) was born at Tilleul in Normandy. He became king's printer in 1555. His most important work was Thesaurus vocum omnium latinarum, containing quotations from Greek authors, taken from hitherto unpublished mss. in the Paris library. (2) FEDERIC MOREL, surnamed the Elder (1523-1583), was born in Champagne. About 155o he married the daughter of the famous printer, Michel de Vascosan, in 1557 set up in business in the rue Saint Jean de Beauvais, and in 1571 was appointed printer to the king. His chief publications were the Declamationes of Quintilian and L'Architecture de Philibert Delorme. (3) FEDERIC MOREL, son of the preceding, surnamed the Younger (1558-163o), was one of the greatest Greek schol ars of his time. He succeeded to his father's business, and was also professor of eloquence at the College de France. Special mention may be made of his revised edition of Amyot's transla tion of Plutarch and his Latin translations of some of the disser tations of Maximus of Tyre, of Libanius, Hierocles and Theo doret. (4) CLAUDE MOREL (1574-1626), brother of the preced ing, also published editions of many of the Fathers and other authors. (5) CHARLES MOREL (1602-4o) was printer and secre tary to the king. He issued the works of Clement of Alexandria, Gregory of Nazianzus, Cyril, Synesius and Chrysostom, and the Concilia generalia et provincialia of Severin Bini. (6) GILLES MOREL, brother of the preceding (dates unknown). His chief publication is the Grande bibliotheque des peres (17 vols., 1643).
See M. Maittaire, Historia typographorum aliquot parisiensium (1717), for all the above; Federic Morel the elder is the subject of a monograph by J. Dumoulin (i9oi).