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Robert de Montesquiou
Robert de Montesquiou | |
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| Comte de Montesquiou-Fézensac | |
 Photographed by Paul Nadar in 1895 | |
| Born | Marie Joseph Robert Anatole de Montesquiou-Fézensac 19 March 1855 Paris, France |
| Died | 11 December 1921 (aged 66) Menton, France |
| Noble family | Montesquiou |
| Father | Thierry, Comte de Montesquiou-Fézensac |
| Mother | Pauline Duroux |
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Marie Joseph Robert Anatole, comte de Montesquiou-Fézensac (19 March 1855, Paris[1] – 11 December 1921, Menton[2]) 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).[3] Some believe that he may even have been used by Oscar Wilde in The Picture of Dorian Gray.[4]
- ^ Archives en ligne de Paris, état civil reconstitué (XVIe-1859), vue 69/101
- ^ Archives départementales des Alpes-Maritimes, commune de Menton, année 1921, acte de décès No. 282, vue 82/98
- ^ Prince Of Aesthetes: Count Robert de Montesquiou (1855–1921), Philippe Jullian, The Viking Press, 1968.
- ^ Munhall, Edgar, Whistler and Montesquiou, p. 13.
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