René Michel Marie Fée

René Michel Marie Fée MEP (5 February 1856 – 20 January 1904) was a French Catholic missionary who served as Bishop of Malacca-Singapore from 1896 to 1904.

For four years he attended the seminaries of Mayenne and Laval before entering the Society of Foreign Missions of Paris where he was ordained a priest in March 1879.

Arriving in Singapore in May 1879, he was assigned  by Bishop Edouard Gasnier to work amongst the South Indian Tamil community on the Malay Peninsula, and within a month travelled north to Penang.

For the next 15 years he worked in the jungle and on the estates of Penang, Province Wellesley and Perak as an unknown priest serving Indian Tamil workers.

[1][2][4] In 1903, his health was failing due to throat cancer and he returned to France for treatment but died following an operation on 20 January 1904, and was buried at Ambrières, his birth place.