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Marc-Pierre de Voyer de Paulmy, comte d'Argenson
D'Argenson supported the Encyclopedists of d'Alembert and Diderot, who's first volumes were dedicated to him and provided his friend Voltaire with material for his Siècle de Louis XIV. He had to abdicate through the influenceof Madame de Pompadour in 1757, was confined to his country seat Ormes and returned to Paris only after the death of his powerful enemy.
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