Marie Joseph Robert Anatole, Comte de Montesquiou-Fézensac , was a French aesthete, Symbolist poet, art collector and dandy. He is reputed to have been the inspiration both for Jean des Esseintes in Joris-Karl Huysmans' À rebours and, most famously, for the Baron de Charlus in Proust's À la recherche du temps perdu .
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