Jean-Baptiste Boyer d\' Argens
See also: Boyer, Argens
Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, marquis d' Argens , born with Aix-en-Provence the June 24th 1704, died in the castle of the Guard, close to Toulon, the January 11th 1771 is a writer, French.
Wire of a Public prosecutor, it followed the military career and had an extremely licentious youth, which pushed his/her father to disinherit it. Wounded in front of Philipsbourg in 1734, it left the service and was withdrawn in Holland, in order to write freely there its Pamphlet S.
It drew the attention of the king de Prusse by his attacks against the Christianisme: this prince called it at his court, made of it its chamberlain with 6.000 francs of treatment, and appointed it managing director of sound.
After having lived 25 years in the intimacy of Frederic II, the marquis d' Argens came to spend his last years in his family, in Aix. With died of the marquis, the king made set up a Mausolée with his memory in the Notre-Dame church of Seds, in Aix.
He had a vast and varied instruction, and its writings are inspired by the philosophy skeptic of the time.
Robert Darnton considers that of Argens of the philosophico-pornographic novel philosophical Therese was probably the author, or memories to be used with the history of the P. Dirrag and Miss Eradice .
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