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Robert de Montesquiou
French aristocrat and writer (1855–1921) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Marie Joseph Robert Anatole, comte de Montesquiou-Fézensac (7 March 1855, Paris – 11 December 1921, Menton) was a French aesthete, Symbolist poet, painter, art collector, art interpreter, and dandy. He is reputed to have been the inspiration both for Jean des Esseintes in Joris-Karl Huysmans' À rebours (1884) and, most famously, for the Baron de Charlus in Marcel Proust's À la recherche du temps perdu (1913–1927).[1] Some believe that he may even have been used by Oscar Wilde in The Picture of Dorian Gray.[2]
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Comte de Montesquiou-Fézensac | |
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Born | Marie Joseph Robert Anatole de Montesquiou-Fézensac (1855-03-07)7 March 1855 |
Died | 11 December 1921(1921-12-11) (aged 66) |
Noble family | Montesquiou |
Father | Thierry, Comte de Montesquiou-Fézensac |
Mother | Pauline Duroux |
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