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Moreau, Gabriel Francois, a French prelate, was born at Paris Sept. 24, 1721. Descended from a lawyer's family, he became council scribe in the Parlia- ment of Paris, and was in 1737 provided with a sine- cure canonship in the metropolitan church, but rapidly rose to distinction, and in 1759 was made bishop of Vence. In 1763 he was transferred to the see of jMacon. After the concordat of 1801 he obtained the bishopric of Autun, where he died. Sept, 8, 1802. The first con- sul (Napoleon Bonaparte) esteemed him highly, and de- manded from the pope the cardinal's hat for him. His literarj' remains, however, are scanty, consisting mainly of a few funeral sermons on distinguished individuals, viz. Oraison funebre de Ferdinand VL et Marie de Poi-- tugal, roi et reine d'Espagne (1760), and Oraison funehre
de M. le Due de Bourgogne (1761). — Hoefer, Nouv, Biog. Generale, xxxvi, 479.
Moreau, Jean, a French theologian, was born at Laval near the opening of the 16th century. He was educated at Paris, and when about thirty years of age was appointed professor of theology at the University of Paris. He next became canon at the cathedral of Meaux. He died about 1584. His work, Nomenclatura sen Legenda aurea pontificuni Cenomanensium, ah anno Verbi incarnati 902 us(iue ad annum 1572, is still pre- served in MS.— Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Gener. xxxvi, 475.
Moreau, Mace, a French martyr to Protestant Cliristianity, was born in the first half of the 16th cen- tury, and flourished at Troj^es, in Champagne. He was reared in the Roman Catholic faith, but about 1547 accepted the Reformed faith, and went to Geneva to study theology. In 1550 he returned to France, go- ing about the country distributing tracts that might turn men's attention from this world's affairs to spirit- ual things. While at Troyes he was entrapped by Romanists, and after a short imprisonment brought to trial before the Inquisition, and condemned to death at the stake unless he should recant. This he refused to do ; and he continued steadfast even at the stake, " until he was smothered by the flames, and his voice on earth forever hushed." See Hurst, Martyrs to the Tract Cause (N. Y. 1872, 18mo), p. 111.
Mo'reh (Heb. Moreh', fl'li'O, an archer, as in 1 Sam. xxxi, 3, etc., or teaching, as in Isa. ix, 14), an old title that appears in the designation of two localities of central Palestine.
1. Apparently a Canaanite (perhaps a chief, like Mamre), B.C. 2088, owning or inhabiting the region south of Shechem, from whom the grove ("i?^, oak [also in the plur.], Auth. Vers. " plain") of Moreh de- rived its name as early as the time of Abraham, who made this his first tarrying-place in the land (Gen. xii, 6, where the Sept. has ■>) Spvc V i'j//X?;X/;,Vulg. con- vallis illustris), a designation that continued till the ex- ode (Deut. xi, 30, Sept. ?'/ epic V v^]]\r],Yu\g. vallis tendens et intrans procul) — " the first of that long suc^ cession of sacred and venerable trees which dignified the chief places of Palestine, and formed not the least interesting link in the chain which so indissolubly united the land to the history of the nation. See Oak. Here Jehovah * appeared' to Abraham, who here built the first of the series of altars (it may be roughly said that Abraham built altars, Isaac dug wells, Jacob erected stones) which marked the various spots of his residence in the Promised Land, and dedicated it ' to Jehovah, who appeared (nX"i5, again, as if a play upon the name of the place) unto him' (Gen. xii, 7). It was at the 'place of Shechem' (ver. 6), close to (^iJX) the mountains of Ebal and Gerizim (Deut. xi, 30), where the Samar. Cod. adds 'over against Shechem.' Ecclus. 1, 26 perhaps contains a play on the name Moreh — ' that foolish people (o Xaog ofiojpot:) who dwell in Si- chem.' If the pun existed in the Hebrew text, it may have been between Sichem and Sichor (drunken). A trace of this ancient name, curiously reappearing after many centuries, is probably to be found in Morthia, which is given on some ancient coins as one of the titles of Neapolis, i. e. Shechem, and by Pliny and Jo- sephus as Mamortha or Mahortha (Reland, Diss. Ill, § 8). The latter states {War, iv, 8, 1) that 'it was the name by which the place was called by the country people' (tirixttipioi), who thus kept alive the ancient appellation, just as the peasants of Hebron did that of Kirjath-arba down to the date of Sir John Mandeville's visit" (Smith). From the notices given, the grove of Moreh appears to have been a forest occupying the ridge afterwards known as the mountains of Eiihraim. (The treatise of Chr. J. Grabener, De Allan Moreh, Lips. 1737, is valueless.)
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teacher's hill; Sept. (3ovvuc -ov 'Ajiopk v. r. Fafiaw- ] a scholarly education, during; this period earning his Bctjiopat, Xulg. collis exnlsus) in the valley of Jezreel, living partly hy instruction, partly by work in a print- on tlie nortli side of the well of Harod, near which the ' ing-office. Thereafter, it is not known from what mo- Midianitish host was encamped when attacked by Gid- tive, he made a journey to (Jcneva, and returned full of eon (Judg. vii, 1); probablj' identical with that known j enthusiasm for the new religious doctrines. He then as Little Jlermon, the modern Jehel cd-Duhy (see Ber- entered tlie service of the (Calvinistic) minister, An- theau, Comment, ad loc), or, rather, one of the lower toine de Cliandieu, both as domestic and secretary, southern spurs of this mountain (where ruins are still While in this position the police came to seize the extant), since it is itself too loft\- (1839 feet. Van de books written in favor of the new religion, and he, along Velde, Memoir, p. 178) for a military encamjiment. It with his master, was arrested. Chandieu, at the recla- is a Ijare gray ridge parallel to Mount GLlboa on the mation of the king of Navarre, was soon set at liberty; nortli, and between them lay tlie battle-tiold. No doubt but Jlorel was placed in one of the most dismal dun- — although the fact is not mentioned— the enemy ke[)t geons of the Chatelet, and thence transported to Fort near the foot of Mount Moreh, for the sake of some I'Eveque, where he had to undergo numerous interroga- spring or springs which issued from its base, as the Ain- tories. He resisted the entreaties of his judges and the Charod did from that on which Gideon was planted. 1 urgent requests of his relatives, who tried to make him See Hakoi). The hostile camp probably extended abjure his creed, and Feb. 16, 1559, was declared a lier- from tlie village of Sliunem on the west down to the j etic, expelled from the Church, and surrendered to the