Why Freron?
Why should he rather than others receive that strange and fatal honor?
I cannot tell you--my researches (those who know me will do me the justice to admit that when I have an end in view, I do not count them)--my researches have not discovered an answer.

It was a whim of Fashion, and Fashion is the one goddess more capricious than Fortune.
Our readers will hardly know to-day who Freron was.

The Freron who was Voltaire's assailant was better known than he who was the patron of these elegant assassins; one was the son of the other.

Louis Stanislas was son of Elie-Catherine.

The father died of rage when Miromesnil, Keeper of the Seals, suppressed his journal.