Robert de Montesquiou
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1855 – 1921
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Who was Robert de Montesquiou?
Marie Joseph Robert Anatole, Comte de Montesquiou-Fézensac, was a French aesthete, Symbolist poet, art collector and dandy.
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.
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