Marc René, Marquis de Voyer de Paulmy d'Argenson

[1] René served in the army of Italy and the army of Flanders in the War of the Austrian Succession, and was Mestre de Camp (proprietary colonel) of the regiment of Berry cavalry at the Battle of Fontenoy (10 May 1745), where he was promoted to Brigadier.

[1][clarification needed] René was lieutenant-general of Upper Alsace in 1753 and governor of Vincennes in 1754, and served afterwards under Prince of Soubise in the Seven Years' War.

He followed his father into exile on their country estate at Château des Ormes (1763), and in the last years of the reign of Louis XV.

He was appointed as Inspector of the Seaboard, and was responsible for putting the roadstead of the island of Aix into a state of defence during the American War of Independence.

He contracted malaria while attempting to drain the marshes of Rochefort, and died at Château des Ormes on 18 September 1782.