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 Correspondance littéraire secrète [fr] 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.
References
- Also spelt Métra and Mettra.
Bibliography
- (in German) Karin Angelike, Louis-François Mettra Ein französischer Zeitungsverleger in Köln (1770-1800), Böhlau, 2002 (ISBN 3412133019)
- Mónica Hjortberg, « Correspondance littéraire secrète 1775-1793 : une présentation », Acta Universitatis Gothoburgensis, 1987 (ISBN 9173461997)
- Antoine Alexandre Barbier, Joseph-Marie Quérard, Dictionnaire des ouvrages anonymes, Paris, Féchoz et Letouzey, 1882, p. 775