MONTESQUIOU, Robert de (1855-1921)

MONTESQUIOU, Robert de (1855-1921)

Name card with autograph additions to a “dear friend”
Janv[ier] 1904, 1 p. in-24 in purple ink
Small brown spots

Robert de Montesquiou’s name card with autograph addition

“Grand Merci, cher ami, je vous compte parmi ceux-là, et j’en suis fier
Janv-1904”

Count Robert de Montesquiou is a poet, writer, dandy and critic of art and literature.
Both poet and insolent dandy, he would have served as a model for Esseintes in Huysmans’s À Rebours (1884) and Jean Lorrain’s Monsieur de Phocas. He is finally and above all famous for being the main inspiration of Baron de Charlus in Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time.