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    Montesquiou (French pronunciation: [mɔ̃tɛskju]; Gascon: Montesquiu) is a commune in the Gers department, Southwestern France. It is the historic seat...
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    Marie Joseph Robert Anatole, comte de Montesquiou-Fézensac (19 March 1855, Paris – 11 December 1921, Menton) was a French aesthete, Symbolist poet, painter...
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    The Portrait of Robert de Montesquiou is an oil on canvas painting by Italian painter Giovanni Boldini, from 1897. It is held at the Musée d'Orsay, in...
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    The de Montesquiou family is a French noble family stemming from Montesquiou in Gascony whose documented filiation traces back to circa 1190. In the 18th...
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    Louise Charlotte Françoise de Montesquiou, née de Le Tellier de Louvois-Courtanvaux de Montmirail de Creuzy (25 June 1765 – 29 May 1835), was a French...
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    Alfred de Montesquiou (born 1978) is a contemporary French reporter, author and documentary film director. He is a laureate of France's highest journalism...
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  • Aymeri de Montesquiou-Fezensac (born 7 July 1942 in Marsan, Gers) was a member of the Senate of France, representing the Gers department. He is a member...
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    Léon de Montesquiou (14 July 1873 – 25 September 1915) was an artistocratic French essayist, militant royalist and nationalist. He played a leading role...
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    decadent French poet Robert de Montesquiou. At the time of Moberly and Jourdain's excursion to Versailles, Montesquiou lived nearby and reportedly gave...
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    Pierre de Montesquiou, comte d'Artagnan and later comte de Montesquiou (1640 – 12 August 1725) was a French soldier and Marshal of France. A scion of the...
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    Stevens. Painted in circa 1871, the painting once belonged to Robert de Montesquiou, and is currently housed at the Princeton University Art Museum located...
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  • September the Kingdom of Sardinia joined the war against France. General de Montesquiou was just a few miles north of Anselme ready to take the Duchy of Savoy...
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    (1884–1980), actress Gabriel Monod (1844–1912), historian Robert de Montesquiou (1855–1921), poet, and Gabriel Yturri (1860–1905), his secretary and...
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    Abbé François-Xavier-Marc-Antoine de Montesquiou-Fézensac (château de Marsan, Gers, 3 August 1757 – Chateau de Cirey, Haute-Marne, 4 February 1832) was...
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    befriended Robert de Montesquiou, the poet and aesthete, who bought six of his drypoints to add to his large print collection. Montesquiou later wrote a book...
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    Haussmann, Paris, where Marcel Proust lived from 1907 to 1919 Robert de Montesquiou, the main inspiration for Baron de Charlus in À la recherche du temps...
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    solemn moment. He was put in the care of Louise Charlotte Françoise de Montesquiou, a descendant of François-Michel le Tellier, Marquis de Louvois, who...
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  • The Duchess of Montesquiou-Fezensac is a 1910 oil portrait by Oskar Kokoschka. In this expressionist work Kokoschka strove to capture the essence of his...
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    de Caraman, 18th Prince de Chimay (1836–1892) and his wife, Marie de Montesquiou-Fézensac (1834–1884). Through her father, she was a granddaughter of...
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    Anne-Pierre, marquis de Montesquiou-Fézensac (17 October 1739 – 30 December 1798) was a French general and writer. Due to his literary talent, he became...
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  • his death. They include Colette, Paul Fort, Abel Hermant, Robert de Montesquiou, Georges Lecomte, René Fauchois, Cécile Sorel, Mary Marquet, Jacques...
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    Some ten subsequent owners, including notables such as Comte Robert de Montesquiou and the Marquise Luisa Casati, contributed to the fame of this dwelling...
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    portrait by Edelfelt Italian Boldini: Madame Charles Max – Portrait of Robert de Montesquiou Spanish Sorolla: The Return from Fishing: Hauling the Boat...
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    [citation needed] In 1875, a new friend entered his life, Comte Robert de Montesquiou, a beautiful and intelligent man twenty-one years his junior. They shared...
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    portrait by Edelfelt Italian Boldini: Madame Charles Max – Portrait of Robert de Montesquiou Spanish Sorolla: The Return from Fishing: Hauling the Boat...
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    from the original on 1 December 2014. Retrieved 1 December 2014. de Montesquiou, Jean-Louis (2022). "Amin avant Amin". Amin Dada. Paris: Perrin. pp. 27–35...
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    portrait by Edelfelt Italian Boldini: Madame Charles Max – Portrait of Robert de Montesquiou Spanish Sorolla: The Return from Fishing: Hauling the Boat...
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    On one vase, called Fiori Oscuri, he engraved the words of Robert de Montesquiou: "I love the hour when everything changes its form, when light and dark...
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    of man, written by the Countess's cousin, Robert de Montesquiou. Fauré wrote: M. de Montesquiou ... has most kindly accepted the egregiously thankless...
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    alongside: Thomas de Boisgelin Succeeded by François-Xavier-Marc-Antoine de Montesquiou-Fézensac Preceded by Louis de Jarente de Sénas d'Orgeval Succeeded by...
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