Élie Catherine Fréron

Élie Catherine Fréron (French pronunciation: [eli katʁin fʁeʁɔ̃]; 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 through 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.