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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 Thermidorien s, 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 MontagnardsFor the television series The Mountain see The Mountain (television series). The Mountain (in French La Montagne refers in the context of the history of the French Revolution to a political group, whose members, called Montagnards sat on the highest bench. He made his paper the official journal of the reactionists, and being sent by the DirectoryThe Directory (in French Directoire held executive power in France from October 1795 until November 1799 from the end of the Convention to the beginning of the Consulate. Five Directors shared power. In the history of France, this period constitutes the l 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 BonapartePauline Bonaparte 1780-1825, (she spelled the named "Bounaparte") was the youngest sister of Napoleon I. After her numerous love affairs became an embarrassment, Napoleon had Pauline married Charles Leclerc, one of his generals. Partly to get his sister o, one of Napoleon's sisters, he went in 1799 as commissioner to Santo DomingoSanto Domingo population 2,061,200 ( 2003), is the capital of the Dominican Republic. The city is located on the Caribbean Sea, at the mouth of the Ozama River. It is the oldest continuously inhabited European settlement in the Western Hemisphere, and was 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.