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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Full name at birth | Marie Joseph Robert Anatole de Montesquiou-Fézensac
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Claim to fame | 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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Date of birth | 7 March 1855
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Place of birth | Paris, France
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Date of death | 11 December 1921
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Age | 66 (age at death)
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Place of death | Menton, France
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Cause of death | Uremia
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Occupation | 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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