Volume 10, Number 8 · April 25, 1968
A Genuine Fake
By George D. Painter
Prince of Aesthetes: Count Robert de Montesquiou, 1855-1921
by Philippe Jullian, Translated from the French by John Haylock, by Francis King
Viking, 288 pp., $6.50
Count Robert de Montesquiou was an aristocrat, poet, wit, art critic, art patron, interior decorator, male beauty queen, and arbiter of elegance. A hollow man, yes; but the more you peel off the layers, the more he is still there. If he was a fake, he was a genuine fake.
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