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CHARLES MARC RENE DE VOYER

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Originally appearing in Volume V02, Page 460 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CHARLES MARC RENE DE VOYER , See also:marquis d' See also:Argenson (1996-1862), son of the preceding, was See also:born at See also:Boulogne-sur-See also:Seine on the loth of See also:April 1796. He concerned himself little with politics. He was, however, a member of the See also:council-See also:general of See also: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 See also:deputy from Vienne to the Constituent See also:Assembly by 12,000 votes. He was an active member of the Archaeological Society of See also:Touraine and the Society of Antiquaries of the See also:West, and wrote learned See also:works for these bodies. He collaborated in preparing the archives of the scientific See also:congress at See also:Tours in 1847; brought out two See also:editions of the See also:MSS. of his See also:great-See also:grand-See also:uncle, the See also:minister of See also:foreign affairs under See also:Louis XV., under the See also: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.

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