Robert de Montesquiou
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 Proust's" À la recherche du temps perdu"( 1913 – 1927).
George van Egmond
George or Joris van Egmont( c. 1504, in Egmond – 26 September 1559, in Saint- Amand Abbey) was a Christian religious authority and a bishop, who served as bishop of Utrecht from 1534 to 1559.
Lucien Descaves
Lucien Descaves( 18 March 1861 – 6 September 1949) was a French novelist.
Descaves was born in Paris.
A disciple of Joris- Karl Huysmans and the Goncourt brothers, his novels" Le Calvaire d' Héloïse Pajadou"( 1883) and" Une vieille rate"( 1883) followed strongly the naturalism movement.
The anti-military novel," Sous- Offs"( 1889) provoked a scandal.
Though acquitted of charges of offending the army and public morality, Descaves was stripped of his military rank.
Robert Baldick
Robert André Edouard Baldick, FRSL( 9 November 1927 – April 1972), was a British scholar of French literature, writer, joint editor of the Penguin Classics series with Betty Radice, and a well- known translator.
He was a Fellow of Pembroke College, Oxford.
He wrote eight books including biographies of Joris- Karl Huysmans, Frédérick Lemaître and Henry Murger and a history of the Siege of Paris.
In addition he edited and translated" The Goncourt Journals" and a number of the classics of French literature including works by Gustave Flaubert, Chateaubriand, Jean- Paul Sartre, Jules Verne, and Henri Barbusse, as well as a number of novels by Georges Simenon.
His son is English academic Chris Baldick.
Don Buchla
Donald Buchla( April 17, 1937 – September 14, 2016) was an American pioneer in the field of sound synthesis.
He was co-inventor of the voltage controlled modular synthesizer along with Robert Moog, the two working independently in the early 1960s.
Edgar Saltus
Edgar Evertson Saltus( October 8, 1855 – July 31, 1921) was an American writer known for his highly refined prose style.
His works paralleled those by European decadent authors such as Joris- Karl Huysmans, Gabriele D'Annunzio and Oscar Wilde.
Alexandre Hepp
Alexandre Hepp,( 14 January 1857 – 1924) was a 19th – 20th- century French novelist, journalist and drama critic.
With Henry Céard, Guy de Maupassant, Joris- Karl Huysmans and Paul Alexis, he was one of Émile Zola's disciples.
He collaborated with many newspapers including" Le GauloisL' ÉvénementL' Écho de ParisGil BlasLe VoltaireLe Matin" and" Le Figaro".
Many of his columns were collected and published in volume.
Joseph-Antoine Boullan
Abbé Joseph- Antoine Boullan( Saint- Porquier, Tarn- et- Garonne, 18 February 1824 – 4 January 1893, Lyon) was a French Roman Catholic priest who was later laicized, and was often accused of being a Satanist although he continued to defend his status as a Christian.
He was a friend and inspiration of the writer Joris- Karl Huysmans.
Huysmans with Henri Antoine Jules- Bois supported Boullan in a celebrated occultist feud with the Marquis Stanislas de Guaita.
Boullan is mentioned in" The Prague Cemetery", the novel by Umberto Eco.
Charles Maingon
Charles Maingon is a Canadian judoka and retired university professor who won gold in the- 70 kg category of the 1969 Canadian National Judo Championships.
He and Vincent Grifo were the first Canadian Champions from Quebec.
Maingon was Professor of French Literature at the Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston, Ontario.
Several of his publications deal with the work of French novelist Joris- Karl Huysmans.
Joris-Karl Huysmans
Charles- Marie -Georges Huysmans
( 5 February 1848 – 12 May 1907) was a French novelist and art critic who published his works as Joris- Karl Huysmans( variably abbreviated as J. K. or J.- K.).
He is most famous for the novel" À rebours"( 1884, published in English as" Against the Grain" or" Against Nature").
He supported himself by a 30- year career in the French civil service.
Huysmans' work is considered remarkable for its idiosyncratic use of the French language, large vocabulary, descriptions, satirical wit and far- ranging erudition.
First considered part of Naturalism, he became associated with the decadent movement with his publication of" À rebours."
His work expressed his deep pessimism, which had led him to the philosophy of Arthur Schopenhauer.
In later years, his novels reflected his study of Catholicism, religious conversion, and becoming an oblate.
He discussed the iconography of Christian architecture at length in" La cathédrale"( 1898), set at Chartres and with its cathedral as the focus of the book.
" Là- bas"( 1891)," En route"( 1895) and" La cathédrale"( 1898) are a trilogy that feature Durtal, an autobiographical character whose spiritual progress is tracked and who converts to Catholicism.
In the novel that follows," L' Oblat"( 1903), Durtal becomes an oblate in a monastery, as Huysmans himself was in the Benedictine Abbey at Ligugé, near Poitiers, in 1901.
" La cathédrale" was his most commercially successful work.
Its profits enabled Huysmans to retire from his civil service job and live on his royalties.

Question: Who died first, Don Buchla or Joris-Karl Huysmans?
Answer: Joris-Karl Huysmans