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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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  • Paul Fort, Abel Hermant, Robert de Montesquiou, Georges Lecomte, René Fauchois, Cécile Sorel, Mary Marquet, Jacques Deval, Anna de Noailles, Édouard Henriot...
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    Alfred Stevens. Painted in circa 1871, the painting once belonged to Robert de Montesquiou, and is currently housed at the Princeton University Art Museum...
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    Clemenceau, Pierre Waldeck-Rousseau, Paul Deschanel, Gaston Doumergue, Robert de Montesquiou, and Giovanni Boldini. Initially forgotten from history, her story...
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    Schweitzer. 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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    aristocratic decadent French poet Robert de Montesquiou. At the time of Moberly and Jourdain's excursion to Versailles, Montesquiou lived nearby and reportedly...
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    Cimetière des Gonards (category Cemeteries in Île-de-France)
    Dieudonné [fr] (1884–1980), actress Gabriel Monod (1844–1912), historian Robert de Montesquiou (1855–1921), poet, and Gabriel Yturri (1860–1905), his secretary...
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    from 1907 to 1919 Robert de Montesquiou, the main inspiration for Baron de Charlus in À la recherche du temps perdu Mme. Arman de Caillavet Grave of...
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    commentator, and journalist Robert Molyneux, English-American Catholic priest and Jesuit missionary to the United States Robert de Montesquiou, French aesthete,...
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    relation, Robert de Montesquiou et Antonio de La Gandara", Revue de la Bibliothèque nationale n° 25, 2007, pp. 54–62 Gabriel Badea-Päun, Antonio de La Gandara...
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    Bourget, Robert de Montesquiou, Reynaldo Hahn, Widor and others. Jean Béraud also painted her salon. Claude Leibenson. La comtesse Potocka. Une égérie de la...
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  • Charvet Place Vendôme (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    was the stake of a bet between Edmond de Polignac and Robert de Montesquiou. Having lost the bet, Montesquiou "naturally kept the 100,000 francs but...
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    helplessness 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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    Palamède, Baron de Charlus: An aristocratic, decadent aesthete with many antisocial habits. Model is Robert de Montesquiou. Oriane, Duchesse de Guermantes:...
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    later. Later she moved to Paris where she got to know the poet Robert de Montesquiou. Despite his repeated betrayals, she always remained legally married...
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    enjoyed the company of her cousin, the exquisite aesthete Count Robert de Montesquiou, in concert with whom she was in contact with the cream of Parisian...
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    distanced himself from the rumour. Some believe that Wilde used Robert de Montesquiou in creating Dorian Gray. Wilde is purported to have said, "in every...
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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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    French painter who specialized in elegant genre works and flowers. Robert de Montesquiou said she was The Empress of the Roses. She introduced Marcel Proust...
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    Mallarmé, Jean Lorrain and Robert de Montesquiou, and exhibiting at the Salon des Artistes Français, the Société Nationale, the Salon de la Rose+Croix and the...
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    jewellery. She captivated artists and literary figures such as Robert de Montesquiou, Romain de Tirtoff, Jean Cocteau, and Cecil Beaton.[citation needed] She...
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  • painted, and other people of Belle Époque Paris, including Robert de Montesquiou, Prince Edmond de Polignac, Jean Lorrain, Sarah Bernhardt, Joris-Karl Huysmans...
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    younger artists such as Pissarro, Renoir, Seurat, and van Gogh. Art historian Robert Rosenblum says Millet's painting introduced "imposing new presences in the...
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  • Jackson (1967) Robert de Montesquiou: A Fin-de-Siècle Prince, London: Secker & Warburg (1967); Prince of Aesthetes: Count Robert de Montesquiou 1855–1921,...
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    the painting of a castle or a church in a snowy landscape. According to Robert Fernier, who published two volumes of the Courbet catalogue raisonné and...
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    the Brussels show in 1874: 1860 – owned by Belgian landscape painter Victor de Papeleu who bought it for 1,000 francs; 1860 – owned by Alfred Stevens, who...
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    aesthete Robert de Montesquiou, who was also the basis for Baron de Charlus in Marcel Proust's À la recherche du temps perdu. Montesquiou's furnishings...
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    Proust, Francis Jammes, Colette, André Gide, Frédéric Mistral, Robert de Montesquiou-Fezensac, Rainer Maria Rilke, Paul Valéry, Jean Cocteau, Pierre...
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