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==Early life==
==Early life==
D'Argens was born in [[Aix-en-Provence]], the eldest son of a magistrate who was made a marquis in 1720. He was given an intensive Catholic and classical education at the hands of the Jesuits, but became a skeptic and eventually a Deist. An arch-opponent of the Catholic Church, intolerance and religious oppression, his books were frequently denounced by the [[Inquisition]]. In 1724 he accompanied the French ambassador on a journey to [[Constantinople]], where he lived for a year. After an adventurous youth, he was disinherited by his father. He then settled for a time in [[Amsterdam]], where he wrote his Memoirs and the celebrated ''[[Jewish Letters (novel)|Lettres juives]]'' (The Hague, 6 vols, 1738-1742). It was followed by ''Lettres chinoises'' (The Hague, 6 vols, 1739-1742), and ''Lettres cabalistiques'' (2nd ed., 7 vols, 1769). Next came the ''Mémoires Secrets de la République des Lettres'' (7 vols, 1743-1478), afterwards revised and augmented as ''Histoire de l'esprit humain'' (Berlin, 14 vols, 1765-1768). He also wrote six novels, which are unjustly neglected.
D'Argens was born in [[Aix-en-Provence]], the eldest son of a magistrate who was made a marquis in 1720. He was given an intensive Catholic and classical education at the hands of the Jesuits, but became a skeptic and eventually a Deist. An arch-opponent of the Catholic Church, intolerance and religious oppression, his books were frequently denounced by the [[Inquisition]]. In 1724 he accompanied the French ambassador on a journey to [[Constantinople]], where he lived for a year. After an adventurous youth, he was disinherited by his father. He then settled for a time in [[Amsterdam]], where he wrote his Memoirs and the celebrated ''[[Jewish Letters (novel)|Lettres juives]]'' (The Hague, 6 vols, 1738–1742). It was followed by ''Lettres chinoises'' (The Hague, 6 vols, 1739–1742), and ''Lettres cabalistiques'' (2nd ed., 7 vols, 1769). Next came the ''Mémoires Secrets de la République des Lettres'' (7 vols, 1743–1478), afterwards revised and augmented as ''Histoire de l'esprit humain'' (Berlin, 14 vols, 1765–1768). He also wrote six novels, which are unjustly neglected.
==Career at Prussian Court==
==Career at Prussian Court==