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Robert de Montesquiou, portrait by Giovanni Boldini, Musée d'Orsay, Paris.
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Marie Joseph Robert Anatole, comte de Montesquiou-Fezensac (March 7, 1855, Paris - December 11, 1921, Menton), was a French Symbolist poet, art collector and dandy. With many homosexual friends, he is reputed to have been the inspiration both for des Esseintes in Joris-Karl Huysmans' À rebours and, most famously, for Baron de Charlus in Proust's À la recherche du temps perdu. He wrote the verses found in the optional choral parts of Gabriel Fauré's Pavane. March 7 is the 66th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (67th in leap years). ... 1855 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... City flag City coat of arms Motto: Fluctuat nec mergitur (Latin: Floating not submerging) Paris Eiffel tower as seen from the esplanade du Trocadéro. ... December 11 is the 345th day (346th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1921 (MCMXXI) was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for full calendar). ... Menton (Occitan: Menton in classical norm or Mentan in Mistralian norm; Italian: Mentone) is a town and commune in the Alpes-Maritimes département of the Provence-Alpes-Côte dAzur région of France. ... This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... This article is about the persons. ... Homosexuality refers to sexual interaction and / or romantic attraction between individuals of the same sex. ... Joris-Karl Huysmans. ... À rebours (translated into English as Against the Grain or Against Nature) (1884) is a novel by the French novelist Joris-Karl Huysmans. ... “Proust” redirects here. ... In Search of Lost Time or Remembrance of Things Past (fr. ... Gabriel Urbain Fauré (May 12, 1845 – November 4, 1924) was a French composer, organist, pianist, and teacher. ... The Pavane in F-sharp minor, opus number 50, was a composition for orchestra and optional chorus written by the French composer Gabriel Fauré in 1887. ...


His portrait Arrangement in Black and Gold: Comte Robert de Montesquiou-Fezensac was painted by James Abbott McNeill Whistler in 1891-1892. Antonio de La Gandara produced several portraits of the Comte. James Abbott McNeill Whistler (July 14, 1834 - July 17, 1903) was an American painter and etcher. ... Year 1891 (MDCCCXCI) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Saturday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... 1892 (MDCCCXCII) was a leap year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... Antonio de La Gandara (December 16, 1861 - June 30, 1917) was a painter, pastellist and draughtsman. ...

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Berceuse d'ombre


The following poem Berceuse d’ombre (Lullaby of shadow) is taken from what is perhaps his best-known work Les Hortensias bleus (Blue Hydrangias):

Des formes, des formes, des formes
Blanche, bleue, et rose, et d’or
Descendront du haut des ormes
Sur l’enfant qui se rendort.
Des formes!
Des plumes, des plumes, des plumes
Pour composer un doux nid.
Midi sonne: les enclumes
Cessent; la rumeur finit. . .
Des plumes!
Montesquiou as caricatured by Georges Goursat
Des roses, des roses, des roses
Pour embaumer son sommeil,
Vos pétales sont moroses
Près du sourire vermeil.
O roses!
Des ailes, des ailes, des ailes
Pour bourdonner à son front,
Abeilles et demoiselles,
Des rhythmes qui berceront.
Des ailes!
Des branches, des branches, des branches
Pour tresser un pavilion,
Par ou des clartés moins tranches
Descendront sur l’oisillon.
Des branches!
Des songes, des songes, des songes
Dans ses pensers entr’ouverts
Glissez un peu de mensonges
A voir la vie au travers,
Des songes!
Des fées, des fées, des fées
Pour filer leurs écheveaux
De mirages, de bouffées
Dans tous ces petits cerveaux.
Des fées!
Des anges, des anges, des anges
Pour emporter dans l’éther
Les petits enfants étranges
Qui ne veulent pas rester . . .
Nos anges!

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Poetry

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  • Les chauve-souris, Richard, 1892
  • Le chef des odeurs suaves, Richard, 1893
  • Le parcours du rêve au souvenir, Charpentier et Fasquelle, 1895
  • Les hortensias bleus, Charpentier et Fasquelle, 1896
  • Les perles rouges, Charpentier et Fasquelle, 1899
  • Les paons, Charpentier et Fasquelle, 1901
  • Les offrandes blessées, Sansot, 1915
  • Nouvelles offrandes blessées, Maison du livre, 1915
  • Les quarante bergères : portraits satiriques en vers inédits, with a frontspiece by Aubrey Beardsley, Librairie de France, 1925.

1892 (MDCCCXCII) was a leap year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... Year 1893 (MDCCCXCIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Tuesday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... 1895 (MDCCCXCV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Thursday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar). ... Year 1896 (MDCCCXCVI) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display calendar). ... Year 1899 (MDCCCXCIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar). ... 1901 (MCMI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Wednesday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... 1915 (MCMXV) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar). ... 1915 (MCMXV) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar). ... 1925 (MCMXXV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar). ...

Novels

  • La petite demoiselle, Albin-Michel, 1911
  • La trépidation, Emile-Paul Frères, 1922

1911 (MCMXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar). ... Year 1922 (MCMXXII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar). ...

Chronology

A chronology of his life can be found at [1].


References

  • Prince Of Aesthetes: Count Robert de Montesquiou (1855-1921), Philippe Jullian, The Viking Press, 1968.
  • Montesquiou, dandy et poète, Robert Holt, Wilhem, 1989
  • L'homme à la perle grise, Michel Bocky, Richard fils, 1990
  • Montesquiou, Marcel Lechère, Édition du Corbeau, 1991
  • Robert de Montesquiou, mécene et dandy, Patrick Chaleyssin, Somogy, 1992
  • Whistler and Montesquiou. The Butterfly and the Bat, Edgar Munhall, New York, 1995
  • Montesquiou à la recherche de la Toison d'or, Philippe Lesort, De la table, 1998.

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Montesquiou was equally proud of his intellectual and literary achievements, which, at least in his own eyes, were considerable.
Montesquiou was one of the principal promoters of the Art Nouveau style in France, especially the work of the glassmaker Émile Gallé.
Montesquiou pretended not to notice and even praised Proust's work for its realistic treatment of homosexuality, but he was in fact mortified, writing to a friend: "I have taken to bed, sick from the publication of three volumes that have distressed me."
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