À rebours
Marie Joseph Robert Anatole, Comte de Montesquiou-Fézensac (7 March 1855, Paris – 11 December 1921, Menton), 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" (1884) and, most famously, for the Baron de Charlus in Marcel Proust's "À la recherche du temps perdu" (1913–1927). He also won a bronze medal in the hacks and hunter combined event at the 1900 Summer Olympics.