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
Occupation
Writer
poet
art collector
socialite
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]
^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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