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 MORNY MOROCCO to Admiral Coligni, and drew up a memorial in behalf of the Huguenots, which was pre- sented to Charles IX. and Catharine de' Medici. After the massacre of St. Bartholomew's, from which he had a narrow escape, he took refuge in England. He returned in 1575, and Henry of Navarre intrusted to him some im- portant missions to Queen Elizabeth. Being appointed general superintendent of Navarre, he stood almost alone the brunt of the reli- gious civil war. On the alliance of his master with Henry III., he was placed in command of the town of Saumur, assigned as a place of safety to the Protestants. In 1589 he arrested and kept prisoner the old cardinal de Bour- bon, whom the leaguers had proclaimed king in opposition to Henry IV. He opposed the abjuration of the latter, and evinced so intem- perate a zeal for Calvinism as to incur the king's displeasure. Nevertheless he kept his gover- norship of Saumur, where on the death of Hen- ry (1610) he proclaimed the authority of Maria de' Medici ; but he quarrelled with that prin- cess, and in 1620 was compelled to resign his office, receiving as indemnity a sum of 100,000 livres. His high character, virtue, and knowl- edge made him for nearly half a century the chief of the French Calvinists; and he was commonly styled by the Catholics le pape des Huguenots. He left various controversial works, and also his personal Memoires (4 vols. 4to, 1624-'52; more complete edition by Au- guis, 12 vols. 8vo, 1822-'5). See also Memoires de Madame de Mornay, published by Mme. de Witt under the auspices of the French his- torical society (2 vols., Paris, 1868-' 9). MORNY, Charles Angnste Louis Joseph de, duke, a French statesman, reputed half brother of Napoleon III., born in Paris, Oct. 23, 1811, died there, March 10, 1865. He was regarded as the son of Queen Hortense and the count Auguste Charles Joseph de Flahaut. He as- sumed the name of the count de Morny, a French nobleman resident at the Isle de France (Mauritius), who is said to have received 800,- 000 francs for adopting him as a son. He was educated under the care of his supposed grand- mother, Mme. de Flahaut, also known as Mme. de Souza from her second marriage with a Portuguese nobleman of that name, and placed in the institution Muron. His proficiency in study was remarkable, and he early attracted the attention of Talleyrand, who predicted that De Morny would one day be a minister. He attended one of the military schools of Paris during two years, and left it in 1832 with the rank of sub-lieutenant. He then served in Algeria, where he was wounded, and was deco- rated with the order of the legion of honor for saving the life of Gen. Trezel. Queen Hor- tense, on her death in 1837, bequeathed to him an annuity of 40,000 francs, and he soon became noted for his commercial and financial speculations. In 1838 he purchased near Cler- mont a manufactory for beet sugar, and largely engaged in that and other enterprises. From 1842 to 1848 he was a member of the chamber of deputies, and in 1849 he was elected to the legislative assembly. He was one of the most effective assistants of Louis Napoleon in the coup d'etat of Dec. 2, 1851. After that event he held the office of minister of the interior until Jan. 23, 1852, when he relinquished it because Fould, Magne, and Rouher had with- drawn from the administration on account of the confiscation of the property of the Orleans family. Subsequently he became a member of the legislative body, and from 1854 to the time of his death was its president. He attended the coronation of the emperor Alexander II. as the representative of the French government, and was ambassador to Russia during the years 1856-7. While at St. Petersburg he married, Feb. 19, 1857, a Russian lady of rank and wealth. In 1862 he was made duke. Du- ring the last years of his life he was actively engaged in railway, mining, and other com- mercial and industrial enterprises. Morny, under the pseudonyme Saint-Remy, was the author of several farces and operettas. MORO, Attoni, also called Sir Anthony More, a Flemish painter, born in Utrecht about 1520, died in Antwerp about 1580. He gained con- siderable reputation as a portrait painter, and in 1552 he executed likenesses of the Spanish crown prince, the future Philip II., and of va- rious members of the royal family of Portugal. In 1554 he painted the portrait of Philip's sec- ond wife, Mary of England, during whose reign he was court painter. Several of his portraits of the queen and of the English nobility are in the palace of Hampton court. Subsequent- ly he was in the service of Philip II. and the duke of Alva, by the latter of whom he was appointed to the lucrative office of receiver general of the revenues of West Flanders. MOROCCO, or Maroeeo (Arab. Maghreb el-Afoa, "the extreme west," or El-Maghreb, "the west "), a sultanate in N. W. Africa, between lat. 27 and 36 N. and Ion. 4 30' E. and 11 50' W., bounded N. by the Mediterranean, E. by Algeria, S. by the desert of Sahara, and W. by the Atlantic; area, about 260,000 sq. m. Its frontier on the desert is generally con- sidered to be on a line drawn directly E. from Cape Nun; its frontier on the province of Oran, Algeria, was determined by treaty of March 18, 1845. The coast line on the Medi- terranean, about 250 m. long, runs N. W. from Algeria to Cape Tres Forcas (Ras ed-Deir), thence W. S. W. to about Ion. 4 30' W., where it again turns N. W. to Punta de Afri- ca, its most northerly point ; thence the course of the coast line is W. S. W. through the strait of Gibraltar to Cape Spartel on the Atlantic, where it turns abruptly and pursues a general S. W. course of about 750 m. to Cape Nun. On the Mediterranean coast Spain holds sev- eral fortified convict stations : Ceuta on Pun- ta de Africa, Pefion de Velez, Alhucemas, Me- lilla, and the Jafarin islands. There are sev- eral small harbors belonging to Morocco, of