Philibert Delorme (or de l'Orme) had studied…
1548 CE
Philibert Delorme (or de l'Orme) had studied architecture in Rome, where Pope Paul III had employed him.
His first major work in his native France had been the Chateau of St. Maur des-Fosses, near Paris, which he had built between 1541 and 1547 for Cardinal Jean du Bellay.
Delorme becomes superintendent of buildings under French king Henry II in 1548.
Much of his work has disappeared, but his fame remains.
In this year also, the Hotel de Bourgogne, built by the Confraternity of the Passion, the Paris actors' monopoly, is completed as the first indoor theater constructed in Paris and the first permanent theater structure to be erected in Europe since the Roman era.
Its first days are marred, however, by a ban on the presentation of religious dramas.
The actors carry on in spite of their restricted repertory, which consists of farces and secular plays.
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