André Morellet French economist
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Table Of Contents André Morellet was a French economist and miscellaneous writer, an associate of the Philosophes and a contributor to the Encyclopédie.
Educated by the Jesuits in Lyon and at the Sorbonne, Morellet took holy orders, but his designation of abbĂ© was the chief thing clerical about him. A frequenter of the salon of Mme Geoffrin (of whom he wrote an Ăloge ), he had a ready and biting wit, and Voltaire called him âLâAbbĂ© Mord-lesâ (the AbbĂ© Bite-Them). As an economist he expounded the views of Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot . In 1785 he was elected to the AcadĂ©mie Française and preserved its archives during the Terror, which he fearlessly condemned in several pamphlets. His MĂ©langes de littĂ©rature et de philosophie du XVIIIe siĂšcle, containing selections from his previous works, appeared in 1818, and his valuable, elegantly written MĂ©moires sur le XVIIIe siĂšcle et la RĂ©volution was published in 1821.
