Robert de Montesquiou
1855
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1921
photo credits: Wikimedia Commons
country of citizenship: France
native language: French
languages spoken, written or signed: French
occupation: poet, writer, journalist, literary critic, biographer, equestrian, art critic, art collector
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). Some believe that he may even have been used by Oscar Wilde in The Picture of Dorian Gray. Source: Wikipedia (en)
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