de Marigny, Etienne-Laurent

A distinguished Creole student of mysteries and Eastern antiquity. Carter's literary and financial executor. A slim, dark, handsome still young man with mustache. He met Carter in the French Foreign Legion in World War I. It was in his New Orleans home that the execution of Carter's will took place and Carter reappeared. According to Lin Carter, in Lovecraft: A Look Behind the Mythos, De Marigny was invented by E. Hoffmann Price and Lovecraft as a joint pen-name instead of using a joint by-line. The name was to be "Etienne Marmaduke de Marigny."

("Through the Gates of the Silver Key")