Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d'Argens was a French rationalist, author and critic of the Catholic Church, who was a close friend of Voltaire and spent much of his life in exile at the court of Frederick the Great. Wikipedia
Born: June 27, 1703, Aix-en-Provence, France
Died: January 11, 1771 (age 67 years), La Garde, France
Parents: Pierre-Jean de Boyer d'Eguilles
Notable ideas: Toleration; freedom of religion; freedom of speech; separation of church and state
Books
Thérèse the Philosopher
1748
Jewish Letters
1738
Die philosophische Therese
2012
Memoirs of the Count Du Beauval ...: Including Some Curious Particulars Relating to the Dukes of Wharton and Ormond, During Their Exiles ...
1754
New Memoirs Establishing a True Knowledge of Mankind: By Discovering the Affections of the Heart, and the Operations of the Understanding, in the Various Scenes of Life; Being a Critical Inquiry Into the Nature of Friendship and Happiness, and Essays on Other Important Subjects
1747
The Jewish Spy: Being a Philosophical, Historical and Critical Correspondence, by Letters Which Lately Pass'd Between Certain Jews in Turkey, Italy, France, &c. Volume V.5