Élie Catherine Fréron, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Élie Catherine Fréron

French writer

Date of Birth: 20-Jan-1718

Place of Birth: Quimper, Brittany, France

Date of Death: 10-Mar-1776

Profession: journalist, literary critic, philosopher

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Élie Catherine Fréron (20 January 1718 – 10 March 1776) was a French literary critic and controversialist whose career focused on countering the influence of the philosophes of the French Enlightenment, partly thorough his vehicle, the Année littéraire.
Thus Fréron, in recruiting young writers to counter the literary establishment became central to the movement now called the Counter-Enlightenment.