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Anne-Pierre, marquis de Montesquiou-Fézensac (17 October 1739 – 30 December 1798) was a French general and writer. Due to his literary talent, he became a member of the Académie Française in 1784. He was elected to the Estates General of 1789.
He was a member of a very old French nobility family from Gascony. His kinsman Anne-Pierre, marquis de Montesquiou-Fézensac would serve alongside him in the National Assembly. Montesquiou-Fézensac was named (1782) Abbé of Beaulieu, near Langres. The Abbé de Montesquieu attended the Assembly of the French clergy (1785) as Agent-General.
The de Montesquiou family is a French noble family stemming from Montesquiou in Gascony whose documented filiation traces back to circa 1190. [1] In the 18th century, the family was recognized as coming in the 11th century from the Counts of Fezensac (extinct in the 12th century).
Robert de Montesquiou was a scion of the French Montesquiou-Fézensac family.His paternal grandfather was Count Anatole de Montesquiou-Fézensac (1788–1878), aide-de-camp to Napoleon and grand officer of the Légion d'honneur; his father was Anatole's third son, Thierry, who married Pauline Duroux, an orphan, in 1841.
In 1907 she married Joseph Marquis de Montesquiou-Fezensac, [10] a member of the Montesquiou family who would go on to become Duc de Fezensac in 1913. [11] When Kokoschka arrived at the Swiss sanitarium to paint Bessie's portrait the Duchess and her husband were there undergoing treatment for tuberculosis. Kokoschka later recalled their meeting:
The painting depicts the count Robert de Montesquiou, a French poet famous for his elegance and eccentricity of his lifestyle. One of the leading names of the social life of Paris in the late 19th century, Montesquiou was an inimitable dandy and an enthusiastic supporter of the aesthetic ideas of John Ruskin and Walter Pater. In the world of ...
Louise Charlotte Françoise de Montesquiou, née de Le Tellier de Louvois-Courtanvaux de Montmirail de Creuzy (25 June 1765 – 29 May 1835), [1] was a French courtier. She served as the royal governess of Napoleon II from 1811 until 1814. Louise was also a lady-in-waiting at the French court.
Léon de Montesquiou (French pronunciation: [leɔ̃ də mɔ̃tɛskju]; 14 July 1873 – 25 September 1915) was an artistocratic French essayist, militant royalist and nationalist. He played a leading role in the right-wing Action Française movement before World War I (1914–18).