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D'argenson, Comte

The Nuttall Encyclopedia

  An eminent French statesman, head of the police in Paris; introduced lettres de cachet , and was a patron of the French philosophes; had the "Encyclopédie" dedicated to him; fell out of favour at Court, and had to leave Paris, but returned to die there (1696-1764).

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