Delorme
MARION, a famous French woman; born Oct. 31, 1613, in or near the town of Blois. She went early in life to Paris, where her great beauty and brilliant wit soon gathered a group of wealthy and high-born lovers round her. Cardinal Richelieu revenged himself for her contempt by causing her to be separated from the ill-fated young Cinq-Mars, rs, her love for whom was the one ennobling passion of her life. Among her lovers were, in succession, the Duke of Buckingham, Saint-Evremond, the Duc de Brissac, the Chevalier de Grammont, and Emery, the Superintendent of Finance. During the first disturbances of the Frondeurs, her house was the rallying-point of the chiefs of that party, and in consequence Mazarin was about to fling her into prison, when she suddenly died in 1650.