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MARQUIS JEAN BAPTISTE DE BOYER ARGENS

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Originally appearing in Volume V02, Page 457 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MARQUIS See also:JEAN See also:BAPTISTE DE See also:BOYER See also:ARGENS  D' (1704-1771), was See also:born at See also:Aix in See also:Provence on the 24th of See also:June 1704 . He entered the See also:army at the See also:age of fifteen, and after a dissipated and adventurous youth settled for a See also:time at Amster-See also:dam, where he wrote some See also:historical compilations and began his more famous Lettres juives (The See also:Hague, 6 vols., 1738-1742), Lettres chinoises (The Hague, 6 vols., 1739-1472), and Lettres cabalistiques (2nd ed., 7 vols., 1769); also the Memoires secrets de la republique See also:des lettres (7 vols., 1743-1478), afterwards revised and augmented as Histaire de l'esprit humain (See also:Berlin, 14 vols., x765-1.768) . He was invited by See also:Prince See also:Frederick (afterwards Frederick the See also:Great) to See also:Potsdam, and received high honours at See also:court; but Frederick was bitterly offended by his marrying a Berlin actress, Mlle Cochois . See also:Argens returned to See also:France in 1769, and died near See also:Toulon on the 11th of See also:January 1771 .

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