Olivier the Boilerman of Ormesson

See also: Ormesson

Olivier the Boilerman of Ormesson - December 28th, 1616 - November 4th, 1686.

It is one of the most famous members of this French big family.

Olivier, Lord of Ormesson and Amboile, (known as also Olivier III) is the son of André d' Ormesson (1577-1665), which died senior of the Council of State in 1665, and of Anne Prévost, resulting from a line of magistrates. He had married Marie de Fourcy, girl of Henri, lord of Chesy, chair Court of Auditors and of Marie of the Barn-Trianon.

To advise with the Parliament in 1636, Master of the requests to the Council of State in 1643, assistant of the intendant of Paris in 1650, intendant in Picardy in 1656 then of Amiens and Soissons in 1662, judge and rapporteur with the famous Fouquet lawsuit in 1662.

Its impartiality during the lawsuit of Nicolas Fouquet, of which it saved the head, dismounting the plot which had been drawn up against Fouquet by the judge Guillaume de Lamoignon of Malsherbe at the request of the council of the king, and refusing a capital punishment against Fouquet was worth a durable disgrace to him. It is withdrawn then in its grounds; with the castle of Ormesson it accepted there Madam de Sévigné, Racine, Boileau, the Fountain, Bossuet, Bourdaloue, Ours with which one owes the drawing of the park at the request of Olivier III, Lebrun (which wrote with Lamoignon a treaty of the Art of the gardens). Olivier d' Ormesson leaves with his death more than one million books.

Author of'' Memories'', started in 1643, It wrote with another magistrate, Guillaume de Lamoignon, a work: art to decorate the gardens . It was related with Mrs. de Sévigné and they dedicated a reciprocal regard.

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