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RENE DE VOYER

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RENE DE VOYER , seigneur d'See also:

Argenson (1596-1651), See also:French statesman, was See also:born on the 21st of See also:November 1596. He was a lawyer by profession, and became successively avocat, councillor at the See also:parlement of See also:Paris, maitre See also:des reguetes, and councillor of See also:state. See also:Cardinal See also:Richelieu entrusted him with several See also:missions as inspector and See also:intendant of the forces. In 1623 he was appointed intendant of See also:justice, See also:police and See also:finance in See also:Auvergne, and in 1632 held similar See also:office in See also:Limousin, where he remained till 1637. After the See also:death of See also:Louis XIII. (1643) he retained his administrative posts, was intendant of the forces at See also:Toulon 458 (1646), See also:commissary of the See also:king at the estates of See also:Languedoc (1647), and intendant of See also:Guienne (x648), and showed See also:great capacity in defending the authority of the See also:crown against the rebels of the See also:Fronde. After his wife's death he took orders (See also:February 1651), but did not cease to take See also:part in affairs of state. In 1651 he was appointed by See also:Mazarin See also:ambassador at See also:Venice, where he died on the 14th of See also:July 1651. His son, MARC RENE DE VOYER, See also:comte d'Argenson (1623-1700), was born at See also:Blois on the 13th of See also:December 1623. He also was a lawyer, being councillor at the parlement of See also:Rouen (1642) and maitre des requites. He attended his See also:father in all his duties and succeeded him at the See also:embassy at Venice. In 1655 he returned from his embassy, ruined, and lost favour with Mazarin, who removed him from his office of councillor of state.

He then gave up public affairs and retired to his estates, where he occupied himself with See also:

good See also:works. In See also:September 1656 he entered the See also:Company of the See also:Holy See also:Sacrament, a See also:secret society for the See also:diffusion of the See also:Catholic See also:religion. Besides See also:writing the See also:Annals of the society, he composed many pious works, which were destroyed in the See also:fire at the Louvre in 1871. Some of his See also:correspondence with the once famous See also:letter-writer, See also:Jean Louis Guez de See also:Balzac (1597-1654), has been published. He died in May 1700, leaving two sons, Marc Rene (see below), and See also:Francois See also:Elie (1656-1728), who became See also:archbishop of See also:Bordeaux. See Fr. Rabbe, " Compagnie du See also:Saint-Sacrement," in the Revue historique (Nov. 1899) ; Beauchet-Filleau, See also:Les Annales de la compagnie du Saint-Sacrement (Paris, 1900) ; R. See also:Allier, La Cabale des divots (Paris, 1902).

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