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See also:MORELLET, See also:ANDRE (1727-1819) , See also:French economist and See also:miscellaneous writer, was See also:born at See also:Lyons on the 7th of See also:March 1727. He was one of the last survivors of the philosophes, and in this See also:character he figures in many See also:memoirs, such as Mme de See also:Remusat's. He was educated by the See also:Jesuits in his native See also:town, and at the See also:Sorbonne; he then took See also:holy orders, but his designation of See also:abbe was the See also:chief thing clerical about him. He had a ready and biting wit, and See also:Voltaire called him " L'Abbe Mord-See also:les." His See also:work was chiefly occasional, and the most notable parts of it were a See also:smart pamphlet in See also:answer to See also:Charles Palissot's scurrilous See also:play Les Philosophes (which procured him a See also:short sojourn in the See also:Bastille for an alleged See also:libel on Palissot's patroness, the princesse de Robeck), and a reply to See also:Galiani's See also:Commerce See also:des Iles (1770). Later, he made himself useful in quasi-See also:diplomatic communications with See also:English statesmen, and was pensioned, being, moreover, elected a member of the See also:Academy in 1785. A See also:year before his See also:death in See also:Paris on the 12th of See also:January 1819 he brought out four volumes of Melanges de lilterature et de philosophi du X VIII'siecle, composed chieflyof selections from his former publications, and after his death appeared his valuable Memoires sur le X VIII' siecle et la Revolution (2 vcls., 1821).
A bibliography of his numerous See also:works is given in See also:Querard's La See also:France litteraire, vol. vi. ; see also Sainte-Beuve, Causeries du lundi, vol. i.
End of Article: MORELLET, ANDRE (1727-1819)
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