What is "mereaux"

Méreaux is the surname of a number of French composers:

• Nicolas-Jean Lefroid de Méreaux (1745-1797), an opera composer
• Joseph-Nicolas Lefroid de Méreaux (1767-1838), his son, a composer for the piano
• Amédée Méreaux (1802-1874), son of Joseph-Nicolas Lefroid de Méreaux, a musicologist, pianist and composer
• Max Méreaux (born 1946), a composer and music teacher