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LOUIS MARIE STANISLAS FRERON (1754-1802)

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Originally appearing in Volume V11, Page 209 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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LOUIS See also:MARIE STANISLAS See also:FRERON (1754-1802)  , See also:French revolutionist, son of the preceding, was See also:born at See also:Paris on the 17th of See also:August 1754 . His name was, on the See also:death of his See also:father, attached to L'Annee litteraire, which was continued till 1790 and edited successively by the abbes G . M . Royou and J . L . See also:Geoffroy . On the outbreak of the revolution See also:Freron, who was a schoolfellow of See also:Robespierre and Camille See also:Desmoulins, established the violent See also:journal L'Orateur du See also:people . Commissioned, along with See also:Barras in 1793, to establish the authority of the See also:convention at See also:Marseilles and See also:Toulon, he distinguished himself in the atrocity of his See also:reprisals, but both afterwards joined the Thermidoriens, and Freron became the See also:leader of the jeunesse darer and of the Thermidorian reaction . He brought about the See also:accusation of Fouquier-Tinville, and of J . B . See also:Carrier, the See also:deportation of B . Barere, and the See also:arrest of the last Montagnards .

He made his See also:

paper the See also:official journal of the reactionists, and being sent by the See also:Directory on a See also:mission of See also:peace to Marseilles he published in 1796 Memoire historique sur la reaction royale et See also:sus See also:les malheurs du midi . He was elected to the See also:council of the Five See also:Hundred, but not allowed to take his seat . Failing as suitor for the See also:hand of Pauline See also:Bonaparte, one of See also:Napoleon's sisters, he went in 1799 as See also:commissioner to Santo Domingo and died there in 1802 . See also:General V . M . Leclerc, who had married Pauline Bonaparte, also received a command in Santo Domingo in r8or, and died in the same See also:year as his former See also:rival .

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