Also known as: Médéric Louis Élie Moreau de Saint-Méry, Moreau de Saint-Méry Gallica, Moreau saint-mery gallica
Last updated: April 16, 2026
A Gallica collection of 19 OCR'd documents centered on the work of Moreau de Saint-Méry, including a volume of his Loix et Constitutions and contemporary pamphlets, journals, and tracts from 1780s–1789 Saint-Domingue. The collection documents colonial law, racial classification, the legal status of affranchis, slave codes, and the ideological architecture of the plantation system — while Jean Casimir's critique identifies Moreau's tripartite racial taxonomy (whites / affranchis / slaves) as a colonial ideological machine that Haitian historiography subsequently absorbed.
The Description topographique, physique, civile, politique et historique de la partie française de l'isle Saint-Domingue (Philadelphia, 1797–1798) — his encyclopedic account of colonial Saint-Domingue's geography, demography, racial taxonomy, and cultural practices.
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Médéric Louis Élie Moreau de Saint-Méry. "Moreau de Saint-Méry — Gallica Collection." 1784. Rasin.ai, https://rasin.ai/connections/sources/moreau-saint-mery. Accessed 2026-05-05.