An original 1756 edition of The Literary Year by Élie-Catherine Fréron (1718–1776), one of the most prominent and controversial literary critics of the Enlightenment. Founded by Fréron in 1754, The Literary Year became an influential periodical devoted to reviewing contemporary books, poetry, theater, philosophy, history, and intellectual controversies. Fréron was particularly famous for challenging Voltaire and the Encyclopedists, defending more traditional religious, literary, and political values against the leading philosophes of his era. This Volume VII for the year 1756 bears the Amsterdam imprint and names Michel Lambert as bookseller, although the journal was closely associated with the Paris publishing trade. Contemporary scholarship cites the 1756 issues of Fréron’s Année littéraire as an important source for Enlightenment literary debate.