Marie Joseph Robert Anatole, comte de Montesquiou-Fezensac, 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". Wikipedia
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