Moreau de Saint Méry was born on January 13, 1750, in Fort-Royale, Martinique. A prominent French lawyer who practiced in Philadelphia, he is often credited for early comments about same-sex attraction between women in the United States. For more, see Moreau de Saint-Méry and the "Unnatural Practices" of American Women, 1793-1798, by Jonathan Ned Katz.