Fréron, ÉLIE CATHERINE

Fréron, ÉLIE CATHERINE, French writer, born in 1718 at Quimper, was a professor in the Collège Louis le Grand, and died 10th March 1776 at Paris. He wrote in defence of church and king against the Encyclopédistes, especially Voltaire, who, stung by these attacks, retaliated by ridiculing his adversary in the drama L'Écossaise (1760).