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See also:FRERON, See also:ELIE See also:CATHERINE (1719-1776) , See also:French critic and controversialist, was See also:born at See also:Quimper in 1719. He was educated by the See also:Jesuits, and made such rapid progress in his studies that before the See also:age of twenty he was appointed See also:professor at the See also:college of See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
Louis-le-See also:Grand. He became a contributor to the Observations sur See also:les ecrits modernes of the See also:abbe See also:Guyot See also:Desfontaines. The very fact of his collaboration with Desfontaines, one of See also:Voltaire's bitterest enemies, was sufficient to arouse the latter's hostility, and although Freron had begun his career as one of his admirers, his attitude towards Voltaire soon changed. Freron in 1746 founded a similar See also:journal of his own, entitled Lettres de la Comtesse de . . . It was suppressed in 1749, but he immediately replaced it by Lettres sur quelques ecrits de ce temps, which, with the exception of a See also:short suspension in 1752, on See also:account of an attack on the See also:character of Voltaire, was continued till 1754, when it was succeeded by the more ambitious Annee litteraire. His See also:death at See also:Paris on the loth of See also:March 1776 is said to have been hastened by the temporary suppression of this journal. Freron is now remembered solely for his attacks on Voltaire and the Encyclopaedists, and by the retaliations they provoked on the See also:part of Voltaire, who, besides attacking him in epigrams, and even incidentally in some of his tragedies, directed against him a virulent See also:satire, Le Pauvre diable, and made him the See also:principal personage in a See also:comedy L'Ecossaise, in which the journal of Freron is designated L'Ane litteraire. A further attack .on Freron entitled Anecdotes sur Freron . . . (1760), published anonymously, is generally attributed to Voltaire.
Freron was the author of See also:Ode sur la bataille de See also:Fontenoy (1745) Histoire de See also:Marie See also:Stuart (1742, 2 vols.) ; and Histoire de l'See also:empire d'Allemagne, (1771, 8 vols.). See Ch. See also:Nisard, Les Ennemis de Voltaire (1853) ; Despois, Journalistes et journaux du X VIII, siecle; See also:Barthelemy, Les confessions de Freron; Ch. Monselet, Freron, ou l'illustre critique (1864); Freron, sa See also:vie, souvenirs, &c. (1876).
End of Article: FRERON, ELIE CATHERINE (1719-1776)
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