DORLEANS, LOUIS (1542-1629), French poet and politi cal pamphleteer, was born in Paris. He studied under Jean Daurat, and after taking his degree in law began to practise at the bar with but slight success. After the League had arrested the royalist members of parliament, he was appointed (1589) advocate-gen eral. His Avertissement des catholiques anglais aux Francais catlzoliques went through several editions, and was translated into English. Dorlcans was proscribed when Henry IV. entered Paris. He took refuge in Antwerp, but was amnestied nine years later, and returned to Paris, where he was soon imprisoned for sedition. The king, however, released him after three months in the Con ciergerie.