Robert de Montesquiou
French aristocrat and writer (1855–1921)
Biography
Marie Joseph Robert Anatole, comte de Montesquiou-Fézensac (19 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). In his play Chantecler, Edmond Rostand is said to have caricatured Montesquiou as the Peacock, 'Prince of the unexpected adjective.'" Some believe that he may have been an inspiration for the character Lord Henry in the 1890 novel The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde.
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Family
- Parents
- Thierry de Montesquiou-Fezensac
Quick answers about Robert de Montesquiou
- How old was Robert de Montesquiou?
- Robert de Montesquiou died on December 11, 1921 at the age of 66.
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- Robert de Montesquiou was born on March 19, 1855.
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- Robert de Montesquiou was born in former 10th arrondissement of Paris.
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- Robert de Montesquiou's zodiac sign is Pisces.
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- Robert de Montesquiou is a citizen of France.
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- Robert de Montesquiou is known as poet, writer, journalist, literary critic.
