Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d'Argens, French philosopher and author (d. 1771)
Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d'Argens (1703–1771) was a French rationalist, author and critic of the Catholic church, who was a close friend of Voltaire and spent much of his life in exile at the court of Frederick the Great.
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