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Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d'Argens

1704 - 1771

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Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d'Argens (24 June 1704 – 11 January 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d'Argens is the 2,152nd most popular writer (down from 1,935th in 2019), the 2,419th most popular biography from France (down from 2,194th in 2019) and the 300th most popular French Writer.

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Among writers, Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d'Argens ranks 2,152 out of 7,302. Before him are Caecilius Statius, Virginia Eliza Clemm Poe, Mariano José de Larra, Asma bint Marwan, Andal, and Brian Tracy. After him are Yevgenia Ginzburg, Miguel Delibes, Constantin Virgil Gheorghiu, Germaine Greer, Étienne Jodelle, and Yvan Goll.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1704, Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d'Argens ranks 10. Before him are Margravine Johanna of Baden-Baden, Countess Caroline of Nassau-Saarbrücken, Anne Christine of Sulzbach, Princess of Piedmont, Carl Heinrich Graun, John Kay, and Hans Hermann von Katte. After him are Johann Andreas Segner, Louis de Jaucourt, Carlos Seixas, Karl August, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont, Charles Pinot Duclos, and Andrija Kačić Miošić. Among people deceased in 1771, Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d'Argens ranks 9. Before him are Philip Miller, Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli, Louis-Michel van Loo, Giovanni Battista Morgagni, Henri Pitot, and John Bevis. After him are František Brixi, Thomas Gray, Tobias Smollett, Dmitry Laptev, Frederick William, Margrave of Brandenburg-Schwedt, and Alexei Razumovsky.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d'Argens ranks 2,419 out of 6,770. Before him are Jean-Baptiste Denys (1643), André Navarra (1911), Paul Hazard (1878), Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac (1581), Sophie Calle (1953), and Hélène Carrère d'Encausse (1929). After him are Abbo of Fleury (945), Henry II, Duke of Guise (1614), William I of Provence (950), Guillaume Postel (1510), Julian the Hospitaller (700), and Étienne Jodelle (1532).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d'Argens ranks 300. Before him are Menasseh Ben Israel (1604), Marceline Desbordes-Valmore (1786), Thomas Merton (1915), Benoît de Sainte-Maure (1154), Albert Gleizes (1881), and Paul Hazard (1878). After him are Étienne Jodelle (1532), Yvan Goll (1891), Roger Peyrefitte (1907), Philippe Sollers (1936), Bernard Palissy (1510), and Pierre Lemaitre (1951).

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