Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d'Argens (24 June 1704 – 11 January 1771) was a French rationalist, author and critic of the Catholic Church, who was a...
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Alexandre Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d’Éguilles (29 March 1709 – 8 October 1783) was a French administrator who served as an unofficial envoy to Charles...
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Philosophe (Therese the Philosopher) is a 1748 French novel ascribed to Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d'Argens, or, according to a minority opinion, Denis Diderot...
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Jean-Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet, chevalier de Lamarck (1 August 1744 – 18 December 1829), often known simply as Lamarck (/ləˈmɑːrk/; French: [ʒɑ̃batist...
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Lettres juives; 1738–1742) is an epistolary novel attributed to Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d'Argens. It "purports to be a translation of the correspondence...
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character of Thérèse the Philosopher, a 1748 French novel ascribed to Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d'Argens the title character of Thérèse Raquin, an 1867...
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of his times: Voltaire, Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d'Argens, Pierre-Louis de Maupertuis and the atheist Julien Offray de La Mettrie. Lord Chesterfield...
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Jean-Baptiste Boyer, Marquis d'Éguilles (1650–1709) was a French aristocrat, lawyer, and engraver. Jean-Baptiste Boyer was born on 21 December 1650 in...
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Jean-Baptiste de La Salle (/ləˈsæl/) (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ batist də la sal]; 1651 – 7 April 1719) was a French priest, educational reformer, and...
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Joseph von Collin, Austrian dramatist (died 1811) January 11 – Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d'Argens, French philosopher (born 1704) February 2 – John...
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