![]() Nathalie Léger writes beautifully of all these facts, but not necessarily in that order, since this is not at all a biography. He kept them in this Pavillon des Muses in the Palais Rose in Le Vesinet. ![]() Montesquiou wrote her biography (published in 1913), and collected, obsessively more than half of those 700 photographs. And last but not least, she exerted fascination on one of the most fascinating gentlemen of the French Belle Époque, Robert de Montesquiou, a very familiar figure for Proustians. As an Emperor was not enough, she became the lover of King Vittorio Emanuele II, who undoubtedly found her fascinating. ![]() He photographed her around 700 times along four decades. The Emperor’s photographer, Pierre-Louis Pierson (1822-1913) inevitably fell under her spell and became fascinated too. A figure no less than Emperor Napoleon III was also fascinated and, expectedly, converted her in his lover. First of all, she was fascinated with herself (elle avait pour elle-même un culte qui frisait l’idolâtrie). The fascinating Virginia Oldoïni (1837-1899) who became Contessa de Castiglione when she was just sixteen, was an Italian (Tuscan) beauty that fascinated many people. I just wish young women addicted to the Selfie culture read this. ![]()
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