DELORME, MARION
French courtesan, was the daughter of Jean de Lou, sieur de l'Orme, president of the treasurers of France in Champagne, and of Marie Chastelain. She was born at her father's château near Champaubert on Oct. 3, 1613. Initiated into the philosophy of pleasure by the epicurean and atheist, Jacques Vallee, sieur Desbarreaux, she soon left him for Cinq Mars, whom she is said to have married secretly. Her salon became one of the most brilliant centres of elegant Parisian society. After the execution of Cinq Mars she is said to have num bered among her lovers Charles de St. Evremond (1610-17o3) the wit and litterateur, Buckingham (Villiers), the great Conde, and even Cardinal Richelieu. Under the Fronde her salon became a meeting place for the disaffected, and her arrest is said to have been pending when she died on July 2, 165o. Legendary accounts declared that she lived until 1706 or even 1741, after having had the most fantastic adventures, including marriage with an English lord and an old age spent in poverty in Paris. She figures in Alfred de Vigny's Cinq Mars, and in Victor Hugo's Marion Delorme. See P. J. Jacob, Marion Delorme et Ninon Lenclos (1859) J. Peladan, Histoire et legende de Marion de Lorme (1882).
(c. 1 s o-1 S7o), French archi tect, one of the great masters of the Renaissance, was born at Lyons, the son and pupil of the architect Jehan de L'Orme. At an early age Philibert was sent to Italy to study (1533-36) and was employed there by Pope Paul III. Returning to France he was patronized by Cardinal du Bellay at Lyons, and was sent by him about 154o to Paris, where he began the Château de St. Maur; in
he was made architect to Francis I. and given the charge of works in Brittany. In 1548 Henry II. gave him the supervision of Fontainebleau, Saint-Germain and the other royal buildings; but on his death (155g) Philibert fell into disgrace. Under Charles IX., however, he returned to favour, and was employed to con struct the Tuileries, in collaboration with Jean Brillant. He died in Paris on Jan. 8, 1 S 70. An ardent humanist and student of the antique, he yet vindicated resolutely the French tradition in op position to Italian tendencies ; he was a man of independent mind and a vigorous originality. His masterpiece was the Château d'Anet (1552-59), built for Diane de Poitiers, the plans of which are preserved in Du Cerceau's Plus excellens bastimens de France, and his designs for the Tuileries (also given by Du Cerceau), begun by Catherine de' Medici in 1565, were magnificent. His work is also seen at Chenonceaux and other famous chateaux; and his tomb of Francis I. at St. Denis remains a perfect specimen of his art. He wrote two books on architecture (1561 and 1567). See Chevalier, Lettres et devis relatifs a la construction de Chenon ceaux (1864) ; Pfror, Monographie du château d'Anet (1867) ; Marius Vachon, Philibert de L'Orme (1887) ; Herbet, Travaux de P. de L'Orme a Fontainebleau (189o) .
