Robert de Montesquiou

Robert de Montesquiou

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Marie Joseph Robert Anatole, Comte de Montesquiou-Fézensac (7 March 1855, Paris – 11 December 1921, Menton), was a French aesthete, Symbolist poet, art collector 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). He also won a bronze medal in the hacks and hunter combined event at the 1900 Summer Olympics.

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Robert de Montesquiou was born on Wednesday, 7 March 1855 in Paris, France. His full name at birth was Marie Joseph Robert Anatole de Montesquiou-Fézensac. He was best known as a writer. Montesquiou's country of citizenship (nationality) was French. He died on Sunday, 11 December 1921 in Menton, France at the age of 66. His zodiac star sign was Pisces.

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Marie Joseph Robert Anatole de Montesquiou-Fézensac
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Les Chauves-Souris (1892/1893, poems) - Les Hortensias bleus (1896, poems) - Les Pas effacés (1923, 3 vol., memoirs) - .../He was the inspiration for the character of Jean des Esseintes in J.-K. Huysmans' À Rebours (1884) and Proust's Baron de Charlus
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7 March 1855
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Paris, France
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Date of death
11 December 1921
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66 (age at death)
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Menton, France
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Uremia
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Poet, writer, aesthete, art collector, art critic, art patron, essayist, novelist, biographer, memorialist, dandy, aristocrat, artist, letter writer, interior decorator, artists' model, socialite, personality, celebrity
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You wanted to widen the field of literature and open it to the immense space of inversion, which has been forbidden until now, and which can provide... beautiful and perilous works (excerpt of a Robert de Montesquiou's letter to Marcel Proust, in regard to Proust's famous novel "À La Recherche du Temps Perdu").
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