Robert de Montesquiou
French writer
Died when: 66 years 279 days (801 months)Star Sign: Pisces
Marie Joseph Robert Anatole, Comte de Montesquiou-Fézensac (7 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).
Some believe that he may even have been used by Oscar Wilde in The Picture of Dorian Gray.
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