About Louis-François Metra
Lived 1738 – 1804 (aged 65–66). Louis-François Metra was a French journalist and commercial agent.
Louis-François Metra (1738 – 11 December 1804) was an 18th-century French journalist.
Banker and correspondent of Prussian king Frederick the Great, Metra mismanaged his business and took refuge in Neuwied, where he printed his weekly review for which he is mostly known. The French journalist De Beaunoir also wrote for the review.
Metra also collaborated with Nouvelliste politique d’Allemagne published in Cologne in 1780.
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French journalist
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Louis-François Metra was born in 1738.
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Louis-François Metra died on 11 December 1804.
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Louis-François Metra was a journalist and commercial agent.
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