ARGENSON, (RENÉ-LOUIS de VOYER) Marquis de.

Mémoires et jounal inédit du Marquis d'Argenson.

Ministre des affaires étrangères sous Louis XV. Publiés et annotés par M. le Marquis d'Argenson. 5 vols. Paris, P. Jannet, Bibliothèque Elzevierienne, 1857-58. Uncut in contemp. brown half calf. Spine richly gilt. Rene-Louis de Voyer Marquis de Argenson's (1696-1757) most imfortant work is his 'Memoires', covering in great details the years 1725-56. They are valuable 'materials for the history of time'. There are to important edition, the first , with some letters, not elsewherepublished, Paris 1857-58, published by his great-grand-nephew. The other, more correct, but less complete was published in Paris 1859. The author was friend of Voltaire, who had been a fellow-student of his at the Jesuit College Louis-le-Grand, and frequented the Club de l'Entreso, the history of which he wrote in his memoires. (Encyclopædia Britannica). Brunet VI, 1297, no.23900. NBG 3,121-122.

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