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Louis Marie Stanislas Fréron (August 17, 1754 - 1802), was a French Revolutionary.
The son of Elie-Catherine Fréron, he was born at Paris. On the death of his father, he became associated with to L'Année littéraire, which was continued till 1795 and edited successively by the abbé GM Royou and JL Geoffroy. On the outbreak of the revolution Fréron, a schoolfellow of Maximilien Robespierre and Camille Desmoulins, published the violent journal L'Orateur du peu pie. Commissioned along with Barras, in 1793, to establish the authority of the convention at Marseilles and Toulon, he distinguished himself in the atrocity of his reprisals, but both afterwards joined the Thermidoriens, and Fréron became the leader of the jeunesse dore and of the Thermidorian reaction.
He brought about the accusation of Fouquier-Tinville, and of Jean-Baptiste Carrier, the deportation of B Barre, and the arrest of the last Montagnards. He made his paper the official journal of the reactionists, and being sent by the Directory on a mission of peace to Marseilles he published in 1796 Mémoire historique sur la reaction royale et sur les malheurs du midi.
He was elected to the council of the Five Hundred, but not allowed to take his seat. Failing as suitor for the hand of Pauline Bonaparte, one of Napoleon's sisters, he went in 1799 as commissioner to Santo Domingo and died there in 1802. General VM Leclerc, who had married Pauline Bonaparte, also received a command in Santo Domingo in 1801, and died in the same year as his former rival.
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- This entry incorporates public domain text originally from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica.