Marion Delorme
See also: Delorme
Marion Delorme , of its true name Marie de Lon, young lady of Lorme (born with Baye in the the Marne, October 3rd 1611 - July 2nd 1650) was a woman famous for her beauty and its adventures under Louis XIII.
Courtesan, born from a middle-class family, it shone by the spirit as much as by the beauty. She had for first lover the poet Desbarreaux, and after him Five-March, the Duc of Buckingham, like several other young lords of the court. Louis XIII itself was, says one, one of the first to offer its homages to him. Bound with Ninon de Lenclos, it shared with it the votes of all that Paris had of more gallant and of more spiritual. After the arrest of princes de Condé and Conti during the disorders of the Sling, it was about to be stopped itself; but its death, which occurred suddenly, prevented the execution of the stop (1650). According to a romantic version, which does not deserve any credit, she would really not have died at that time, but she would have made spread the rumor of her death, in order to flee more easily. She would have had since a crowd of adventures and would have ceased living only in 1706. Tallemant of Réaux, its contemporary, makes it die in 39 years and gives on its death of the details which cannot leave any doubt.
The singular life of this woman provided in 1804 to Dumersan and Pain the subject of the Belle Marie , light comedy, and with Victor Hugo the idea of the beautiful drama of Marion Delorme , in five acts and worms, represented with the Théâtre of the Door Saint Martin's day the August 11th 1831, after being prohibited by the censure during two years. Amilcare Ponchielli drew from it an opera, represented in 1885. Its topic is that of the regeneration of the courtesan by a sincere love.
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- Eugene de Mirecourt wrote in 1856 a novel entitled Mémoires of Marion Delorme
- Marion Delorme perhaps inspired with Alexandre Dumas the character of MILADY de Winter, in the Three Musketeers.