FRERON, LOUIS MARIE STANISLAS French revolutionist, son of the preceding, was born at Paris on Aug. 17, 65. On the death of his father his name was attached to L'Annee litteraire, which was continued till 1790 and edited successively by the abbes G. M. Royou and J. L. Geoffroy. On the outbreak of the revolution Freron, who was a schoolfellow of Robespierre and Camille Desmoulins, established the violent journal L'Orateur du peuple. With Barras in he repressed the opposition to the Convention at Marseilles and Toulon, but both afterwards joined the Thermidoriens, and Freron became the leader of the jeunesse doree and of the Thermidorian reaction. He brought about the accusation of Fouquier-Tinville and of J. B. Carrier, the deportation of B. Barere and the arrest of the last Montagnards. His paper became the official journal of the reactionists. He went in 1799 as commissioner to Santo Domingo and died there in 18o2. He wrote Memoire Itistorique sur la re action royale et stir les malheurs du midi (1796).