Jean Fréville (born Eugène Schkaff; 25 May 1895 – 23 June 1971) was a French writer, journalist, literary and art critic, translator and historian.
He studied at the Lycée Janson-de-Sailly, then took courses in law and philosophy at the École libre des sciences politiques.
In 1931, he became a literary columnist for l'Humanité under the pseudonym Jean Fréville and publicized the writings of Marx, Engels, Plekhanov, Lenin, and Stalin on art and literature.
After the German invasion of France he was mobilized in March 1940 and, after his demobilization in July in Nice, he lent his support to the clandestine newspaper of resistance intellectuals, Pensée et action.
[3] Despite becoming isolated politically after the death of Thorez in 1964, Jean Fréville remained a member of the PCF until the end of his life in June 1971.