d'Argens

But for France's Marquis d'Argens, the aristocratic roué and pornographer, a liberated common sense promised to unmask conventional religious and moral pieties as illusions.

All Things To All People Jeffrey Collins 2011

As we read of his tricks on d'Argens or Pöllnitz, we feel how right Voltaire was in borrowing a nickname for him from a mischievous brute whom he kept in his garden.

Voltaire 2007

He presented d'Argens with a house; when d'Argens went to take possession he found the walls adorned with pictures of all the most indecent and humiliating episodes of his own life.

Voltaire 2007

Frederick need not have summoned the least worthy French freethinkers, men like d'Argens and La Mettrie and De Prades, in their own way as little attractive in life and in doctrine as any monk or Geneva preacher, to warrant him in thinking meanly of mankind.

Voltaire 2007

The Marquis d'Argens dedicated his Lettres chinoises (The Hague, 1755) to the shade of

Dictionary of the History of Ideas DONALD F. LACH 1968

He brought the Marquis d'Argens to his court, made him chamberlain, member of the Academy, and one of his nearest and dearest friends.

The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 12 Various

The Marquis d'Argens who lived with the king at Potsdam in the capacity of his

Jewish Literature and Other Essays Gustav Karpeles 1878

Neither the bust of Voltaire, with its beaming, intelligent face, nor those of his friends, Lord-Marshal Keith and the Marquis d'Argens, could win an affectionate glance from the lonely old king.

Old Fritz and the New Era Peter [Translator] Langley 1843

Frederick offered Amelia his hand, and bowing silently to those who were present, he entered his apartment, followed only by the Marquis d'Argens.

Frederick the Great and His Family Chapman Coleman 1843

The tall, slender form of the Marquis d'Argens appeared at the threshold.

Frederick the Great and His Family Chapman Coleman 1843