Moreau Family

The **Moreau Family** is one of the main families in *The Originals* and a prominent witch family based in New Orleans. The family has a strong connection to the French Quarter Coven and over the years, the **Mikaelson Family**. Through Nicolette Moreau's marriage, the Moreau family also has a special connection to the **Claire Family**.

## History

Over the years, the Moreau family had interactions with Kol Mikaelson. Noelle Moreau, Mary-Alice Claire and Astrid Malchance helped Kol manufacture dark objects with kemiya, a type of Arabian magic. Noelle would watch as Kol was daggered by Klaus unable to help for which she was fed vampire blood and killed. Some time before this, Kol angered Noelle and Mary-Alice and they made sure that he could never enter his playhouse, sealing it shut using their own blood so that it could only be re-opened by another Claire witch and Moreau Witch.

Following in her ancestor's footsteps, Davina Claire also aided Kol in the formation of dark objects via kemiya. After his death, she sought a spell to bring him back. Some time later she succeeds, resurrecting him from the Ancestral Plane.

## Family Members

* **Lucette Moreau:** Lucette was a beautiful French woman who was born in the country. She is the matriarch of the Moreau family who married an English man and had three daughters with him. After her husband left her after the announcement of their third child, Lucette immigrated to New Orleans, Louisiana to start a new life with her daughters. She has been described by Noelle as being a ”no-nonsense, woman” with a temper that ”burns brighter than the sun.” Kol mentions that most people would describe Lucette as “the most terrifying five foot woman you could come across.” She died in 1930 which prompted her eldest daughter’s move back to France.
* **Nathalie Moreau:** Nathalie was the eldest of the three Moreau sisters. She has been described as the spitting image of her mother both in looks and attitude. She and her youngest sister, Noelle, had an antagonistic relationship as Nathalie was always the more straitlaced and strict sibling while Noelle was the more carefree and reckless. After her mother died in 1930, Nathalie moved back to the family's home country of France with her family and Noelle notes that there are Moreau witches still living in France to the present day.
* **Nicolette Moreau:** Nicolette was the middle sister of the Moreau sisters and always the neutral party of the bunch. Noelle notes that Nicolette saw the conflict between Nathalie and Noelle to be idiotic as they both could've benefited from each other's traits. Nicolette ended up marrying a male Claire witch and combined the Claire and Moreau family bloodlines. Davina Claire is a direct descendent of Nicolette's bloodline, making her and Noelle family.
* **Noelle Moreau:** Noelle was always known as the more carefree and reckless one of the Moreau sisters. She did not fall into the same mindset of the witches around her and only wanted peace between the supernatural inhabitants of New Orleans. She was also the most naive out of the sisters as she admits. She fell for Kol Mikaelson in a relationship that lasted for over a century. She now is married to Kol and living in New York with her descendent Davina and her best friend Leo.

## Relatives

### Through Nathalie:

* **Unnamed Husband:** Nathalie married an unnamed witch who both ended up moving back to France after Lucette Moreau died.

### Through Nicolette:

* **Unnamed Claire Witch:** Nicolette's Husband
* **Davina Claire:** Davina is the descendant of Nicolette and her husband's line.

## Surname

* **Moreau** is a common surname in France that is found throughout the world, including the U.S. and Canada.
* The Moreau surname originated as a nickname for someone with dark skin.
* It's derived from the Old French word more, meaning "dark-skinned," which in turn derives from the Phoenician mauharim, meaning "eastern."

## Trivia

* Despite being told of how powerful the family is, they are the only family whose witches haven't used magic on screen.
* They owned a bar in the French Quarter that closed down a few decades prior to the series.