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unusual facts about René A. Morel


René A. Morel

In 1999, Morel & Gradoux-Matt, Inc. was started to make room for another experienced luthier, Emmanuel Gradoux-Matt.


Edmund Morel

E. D. Morel (1873–1924), British journalist, author, and socialist politician

The Black-Man's Burdon

The title is a pun on The Black Man's Burden, an expression which refers to black slavery, used as the title of a book by E. D. Morel (1920) in response to the poem, "The White Man's Burden" (1899) by Rudyard Kipling, which refers to (and champions) American imperialism (including its history of slavery).


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