Pierre de Bourdelles, Lord Arborov, a French courtier of the reign of Charles IX., and his mother Catherine de' Medici, was born about 1527, and died at his chateau of Richemont in 1614. He is best known by his posthumous Memoires, which first appeared in 1666; but the most complete edition is that of 1740, in 15 duodecimo volumes. They contain a very lively account of the manners of that age, and an unblushing chronicle of the profligacy of the writer, and of the courts and times in which he lived.