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See also:MARION See also:DELORME (c. 1613-165o)
, See also:French courtesan, was the daughter of See also:Jean de See also:Lou, sieur de 1'See also:Orme, See also:president of the treasurers of See also:France in See also:Champagne, and of See also:Marie Chastelain
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She was See also:born at her See also:father's See also:chateau near Champaubert
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Initiated into the See also:philosophy of See also:pleasure by the epicurean and atheist Jacques Vallee, sieur Desbarreaux, she soon See also:left him for Cinq See also:Mars, at that See also:time at the height of his popularity, and succeeded, it is said, in marrying him in See also:secret
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From this time See also:Marion See also:Delorme's See also:salon became one of the most brilliant centres of elegant Parisian society
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After the See also:execution of Cinq Mars she is said to have numbered among herlovers See also:
See P
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J
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See also:Jacob, Marion Delorme et Ninon See also:Lenclos (Paris, 1859) ; J
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Peladan, Histoire et legende de Marion de Lorme (Paris, 1882)
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DE L'ORME, PHILIBERT (c
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1510-1570), French architect, one of the great masters of the See also:Renaissance, was born at See also:Lyons, the son of Jehan de L'Orme, who practised the same See also:art and brought his son up to it
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At an See also:early age Philibert was sent to See also:Italy to study (1533-t536) and was employed there by See also:Pope See also:Paul III
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Returning to France he was patronized by Cardinal du Bellay
at Lyons, and was sent by him about 1540 to Paris,where he began the Chateau de St Maur, and enjoyed royal favour; in 1545 he was made architect to See also:Francis I. and given the See also:charge of See also:works in See also:Brittany
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In 1548 See also: An ardent humanist and student of the See also:antique, he yet vindicated resolutely the French tradition in opposition to See also:Italian tendencies; he was a See also:man of See also:independent mind and a vigorous originality . His masterpiece was the Chateau d' See also:Anet (1552-1559), built for Diane de See also:Poitiers, the plans of which are preserved in Du Cerceau's Plus excellens See also:basti- mens de France, though See also:part of the See also:building alone remains; and his designs for the Tui- leries (also given by Du Cerceau), begun by See also:Catherine de' See also:Medici in 1565, were magnificent . His work is also seen at See also:Chenonceaux and other famous chateaux; and his See also:tomb of Francis I. at St See also:Denis remains a perfect speci- men of his art . He wrote two books on See also:architecture (1561 and 1567) . See See also:Marius Vachon, Philibert de L'Orme (1887) ; See also:Chevalier, Lettres et devis relatifs a la construction de Chenonceaux (1864) ; Pfror, Monographie du chateau d'Anet (1867) ; Herbet, Travaux de P. de L'Orme a Fontainebleau (1890) . |
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