LOR 



LOR 



They are mentioned ftat. i Rich. II. cap. 12. See Coj.r- 



TANY. 



Tiie word fecms derived from the Latin, lonim, a thong. 

 , LORIOL, in Geography, a town of France, in the de- 

 partment of tlie Drome, and chief place of a canton, in the 

 diilria of Valence; 12 miles S. of Valence. The place 

 contains 2392, and the canton 6634 inhabitants, on a ter- 

 ritory of 1774 kiliomctres, in 5 communes. 



LORIOT, in Ornithology. See Okiolus Galbula. 



LORIPES, the name ufcd by foma authors for the 

 liimantopus, a bird of the water-kind, remarkable for the 

 length and weaknefs of its legs. See Chauadiuus Hhnan- 

 topus. 



LORIS, in Zoology, a fpccies of lemur in the Linnzan 

 fyfleni, being the lemur tardigradus of Buffwn, defcribed by 

 linffon. See Lemuu Tardigradus. 



LORME, Philibert de, in Biography, an eminent 

 French architeft, was born at Lyons in the early part of 

 the fixteenth century. He went to Italy, when he was but 

 fourteen years of age, to iludy the art f<ir which he (cemcd 

 to have a fort of natural tafte. His :.fiiduity attrafted the 

 notice of cardinal Cervino, afterwards pope MarccUus IT., 

 Avho took him into his palace, and aflilled him in his pur- 

 fuits. He returned to France in i 536, and was the means 

 of banidiing the Gothic tade in buildings, and i'ubtlitr.ting 

 in its place the Grecian. He was employed by Henry II., 

 for whom he planned the horre-flioe at Fo;itainbleau, and 

 tl'.c chateaus of Anet and Meudon. After the di-mifejpf 

 the king, he was made infpeftor of the royal buildmgsHy 

 Catharine de Medicis ; and under her direttion he repaired 

 and augmented fevcral of the royal refidenccs, and began 

 the building of the Thudleries. In 15JJ he was created 

 counfellor and almoner in ordinary to the king ; and as a 

 recompence for his fervices, he was prefented with two ab- 

 bacies. Thefe honours, it is faid, made him arrogant, 

 which occafioncd the poet Ronfard to fatirize him in a 

 piece, entitled " La Truelle CrofTee," or " The croziercd 

 Trowel." De Lorme took his revenge, and fliut the gar- 

 den of the Thuilleries againll him ; but the queen took part 

 -with tlie poet, and feverely reprimanded the reverend archi- 

 teft. De Lorme died in 1577. He publifhed " Dix Livres 

 d'Architefture," and " Nouvelles Inventions pour bien 

 batir et a petits Frais." Moreri. 



Lorme, in Geography, a town of France, and feat of a 

 tribunal, in the department of the Nievre; 33 miles N.E. 

 of Ncvers. 



LORN, a ditlria of Scotland, in the north part of the 

 county of Argyle; whence the eldeff fon of the duke of 

 Argvle takes tlie title of marquis of Lorn. 



LOROMIE's Stoke, a place of America, in the ftate 

 of Ohio, wefterly from fort Lawrence, ai'd near a fort of a 

 branch of the great Miami river, which falls into the Ohio. 

 At this fpot, bounded weft by the Indian line, the Indians 

 ceded a traft of land to the United States, fix miles fquare, 

 by the treaty figned Augnll 3, 1795. Here tlie portage 

 commences between the Miami of the Ohio and St. Mary's 

 river, which runs into lake Erie. 



LOROUS, a town of 'runis,, anciently called " Lari- 

 bus ;" 60 miles S.W. of Tunis. 



LOROUX Beconxois, Le, a town of France, in the 

 department of the Maine and Loire ; 13 miles W.N.W. of 

 Angers. 



LoHOUX Botttrcau, a town of France, in the department 

 of t4ie Lower Loire, and chief place <of a canton, in the dif- 

 trift of Nantes; 10 miles N. of Chlfon. The place con- 

 tains 1 178, and the canton 8^36 inhabitants, on a territory 

 of I J7^ kilioraetres, in 5 communes. 



LOR QUI, a town of Spain, in Murcia ; 12 miles N.W. 

 of Murcia. 



LORRACH, or Lauach, a town of the duchy of 

 Baden ; 6 miles N E, of Bale. 



IX')RR.AIN, RoBEKT LE, in Biography, an eminent 

 fcnlptor, was born at Paris in 1666. He was pupil of 

 Gerardon, who confided to him, at the age of eiDhteen, the 

 inttruftion of his own children, and the corredtion of the 

 defigns of his other pupils. Having diilinguiflied liimfelf 

 by feveral works, and carried away the firil prize at the 

 academy, he went to Rome for improvement. In 1693 he 

 returned ; but owing to the misfortunes of the times, he 

 found fcarcely any employment. In 1 701 he was admitted 

 into the academy of painting and fculpture, on account of 

 his great merit as an artiil. He was perfeftly unafluming in 

 his manners, and took no heed of putting himfelf forward ; 

 fo that his works, which always attradied notice, were much 

 more known than his peribn. In 17 10 he was nominated 

 adjunft profefTor in the academy ; and in 1717 he tilled the 

 office of profefTor. The duties of thefe offices he fulfilled 

 with great attention ; and be could boaft of having inftrufted 

 in his art feveral pupils of extraordinary merit. He exe- 

 cuted much of the exterior fculpture of the palace of Sa- 

 verne, near Strafourg, for the cardinal de Rohan ; but in 

 the midfl of his labours, and of an increafing reputation, he 

 was attacked by a ftroke of apoplexy in 1738, which obliged 

 him to return to Paris, where he lingered feveral years, till 

 ueath terminated his afflictions in 1743. Lorrain was diftin- 

 gui.fhed by his charaftcr-heads ; of which, thofe of young 

 pcrfons, particularly of the female fex, are often exquifitely 

 beautiful, with airs of fingular grace and elegance. Gen.' 

 Biog. 



LoRRAlN, Duchy of, in Geography, united to France, 

 and, together with the duchy of Bar, now divided into the 

 departments of the Meufe, the Meurthe, the Mofelle, and 

 tlie V^ofgeS ; which fee refpeflively. This country forms 

 only a fmall part of-a kingdom, which bore that name, and 

 which extended from Vienne on the Rhone to Cologne. 

 Separated from Bar, it is about 90 miles in length, and 

 69 in breadth. The principal rivers are the Meufe, the 

 Mofelle, the Meurthe, and the Saar. 



According to Chaucer, we know not on what founda- 

 tion, Lorrain abounded in fingers fuperior to thofe of 

 France : 



" There mighteft thou fe thefe flutours, 

 Minftallcs, and eke jugilours. 

 That v.ell to finging did their pain, 

 Some fongen fonges of Loiaine ; 

 For in Loraine their notis be 

 Fut fweeter than in this conirc." 



LORRAINE, Charles de, in Biography, cardinal and 

 archbilhop of Rheims, younger fon of Claude dc Lorraine, 

 firll duke of Guile, was born in 15'2). He was. created 

 archbidiop of Rheims, at the age of fifteen, by Francis I., 

 and cardinal by pope Paul III. in 1547. At the death of 

 his uncle, the cardinal John of Lorrain, in 1550, he fuc- 

 ceeded to a rich courfe of benefices, which, it appears,: 

 amounted in the whole to two archbiflioprics, fix bilhoprics, 

 and feveral rich abbacies. In addition to high birth, he 

 poflcfTcd a fine perfon, quick parts, a natural ITow ot elo- 

 quence, .and no incqnfiderable (liare of learning. Through 

 the intereft of Diana de Poitiers, millrefs of Henry II., he 

 was fent out as his ambaflador to the pope. He foon en- 

 tered into the views of the holy pontiif, and perfuiided the 

 king his mailer to undertake a war for the conqueil of 

 Naples, iu wlUch his brother, the duke of Guife, had the 



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