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Marie Joseph Robert Anatole, comte de Montesquiou-Fezensac (March 7, 1855, Paris - December 11, 1921, Menton), was a French Symbolist poet, art collector and dandy. With many homosexual friends, he is reputed to have been the inspiration both for des Esseintes in Joris-Karl Huysmans' À rebours and, most famously, for Baron de Charlus in Proust's À la recherche du temps perdu
Marie Joseph Robert Anatole, comte de Montesquiou-Fezensac (March 7, 1855, Paris - December 11, 1921, Menton), was a French Symbolist poet, art collector and dandy. With many homosexual friends, he is reputed to have been the inspiration both for des Esseintes in Joris-Karl Huysmans' À rebours and, most famously, for Baron de Charlus in Proust's À la recherche du temps perdu
Robert de Montesquiou was a scion of the famous French Montesquiou-Fezensac Family.
This portrait is by Giovanni Boldini, Musée d'Orsay, Paris.
