CHARLES MARC RENE DE VOYER  , marquis d' Argenson (1996-1862), son of the preceding, was born at Boulogne-sur-Seine on the loth of April 1796 . He concerned himself little with politics . He was, however, a member of the council-general of Vienne for six years, but was expelled from it in 1840 in consequence of his advanced ideas and his relations with the Opposition . In 1848 he was elected deputy from Vienne to the Constituent Assembly by 12,000 votes . He was an active member of the Archaeological Society of Touraine and the Society of Antiquaries of the West, and wrote learned works for these bodies . He collaborated in preparing the archives of the scientific congress at Tours in 1847; brought out two editions of the MSS. of his great-grand-uncle, the minister of foreign affairs under Louis XV., under the title Memoires du marquis d'Argenson, one in 1825, and the other, in 5 vols., in 1857–1858; and published Discours et opinions de mon Ore, M . Voyer d'Argenson (2 vols., 1845) . He died on the 31st of Juy 1862 .