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professor of See also:jurisprudence in the See also:law school of Berytus in See also:Syria,and one of the three commissioners appointed by the See also:emperor Justinian to draw up a See also:book of Institutes, after the See also:model of the Institutes of See also:Gaius, which should serve as an introduction to the See also:Digest already completed. His colleagues were Tribonian and See also:Theophilus; and their See also:work was accomplished in 533• Dorotheus was subsequently the author of a commentary on the Digest, which is called the See also:Index, and was published by him in 542. Fragments of this commentary, which was in the See also:Greek See also:language, have been preserved in the Scholia appended to the See also:body of law compiled by See also:order of the emperor Basilius the Macedonian and his son See also:Leo the See also:Wise, in the 9th See also:century, known as the See also:Basilica, from which it seems probable that the commentary of Dorotheus contained the substance of a course of lectures on the Digest delivered by him in the law school of Berytus, although it is not See also:cast in a See also:form so precisely didactic as the Index of Theophilus. D'ORSAY, See also:ALFRED See also:GUILLAUME See also:GABRIEL, See also:COUNT (1801–1852), the famous See also:dandy and wit, was See also:born in See also:Paris on the 4th of See also:September 18o1, and was the son of See also:General D'Orsay, from whom he inherited an exceptionally handsome See also:person. Through his See also:mother he was See also:grandson by a morganatic See also:marriage of the See also:king of See also:Wurttemberg. In his youth he entered the See also:French See also:army, and served as a garde du See also:corps of See also:Louis XVIII. In 1822, while stationed at See also:Valence on the See also:Rhone, he formed an acquaintance with the See also:earl and countess of See also:Blessington (q.v.) which quickly ripened into intimacy, and at the invitation of the earl he accompanied the party on their tour through See also:Italy. In the See also:spring of 1823 he met See also:Lord See also:Byron at See also:Genoa, and the published See also:correspondence of the poet at this See also:period contains numerous references to the count's gifts and accomplishments, and to his See also:peculiar relationship to the Blessington See also:family. A See also:diary which D'Orsay had kept during a visit to See also:London in 1821–1822 was submitted to Byron's inspection, and was much praised by him for the know-ledge of men and See also:manners and the keen See also:faculty of observation it displayed. On the 1st of See also:December 1827 Count D'Orsay married See also:Lady Harriet See also:Gardiner, a girl of fifteen, the daughter of Lord Blessington by his previous wife. The See also:union, if it rendered his connection with the Blessington family less ostensibly equivocal than before, was in other respects an unhappy one, and a separation took See also:place almost immediately. After the See also:death of Lord Blessington, which occurred in 1829, the widowed countess returned to See also:England, accompanied by Count D'Orsay, and her See also:home, first at Seamore Place, then at See also:Gore See also:House, soon became a resort of the fashionable See also:literary and See also:artistic society of London, which found an equal attraction in See also:host and in hostess.

The count's charming manner, brilliant wit, and artistic faculty were accompanied by benevolent moral qualities, which endeared him to all his associates. His skill as a painter and sculptor was shown in numerous portraits and statuettes representing his See also:

friends, which were marked by See also:great vigour and truthfulness, if wanting in the finish that can only be reached by persistent discipline. Count D'Orsay had been from his youth a zealous Bonapartist, and one of the most frequent guests at Gore House was See also:Prince Louis See also:Napoleon. In 1849 he went bankrupt, and the See also:establishment at Gore House being broken up, he went to Paris with Lady Blessington, who died a few See also:weeks after their arrival. He endeavoured to provide for himself by See also:painting portraits. He was deep in the counsels of the prince See also:president, but the relation between them was less cordial after the coup d'etat, of which the count had by anticipation expressed his strong disapproval. His See also:appointment to the See also:post of director of See also:fine arts was announced only a few days before his death, which occurred on the 4th of See also:August 1852. Much See also:information as to the See also:life and See also:character of Count D'Orsay is to be found in See also:Richard See also:Madden's Literary Life and Correspondence of the Countess of Blessington (1855).

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