René-Louis de Voyer de Paulmy, marquis of Argenson was a politician who served as Minister for Foreign Affairs from November 1744 to January 1747 and was a friend of Voltaire. His younger brother, Mar
René-Louis de Voyer de Paulmy, Marquis d' Argenson
Marc Antoine René de Voyer
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Marc Antoine René de Voyer, Marquis de Paulmy and Marquis d'Argenson, was a French ambassador to Switzerland, the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, the Republic of Venice and to the Holy See, and later
René Louis de Voyer de Paulmy, Marquis of Argenson
…the best citizen that had ever tasted the ministry". He died on 26 January 1757. D'Argenson left a large number of manuscript works, of which his son, Marc Antoine René, Marquis de Paulmy, published the Considérations sur le gouvernement de France (Amsterdam, 1764) and Essais dans le goût de ceux de Montaigne (Amsterdam, 1785). The latter…
Antoine René de Voyer de Paulmy d'Argenson