Polignac
Britishnoun
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There are portraits of Pozzi’s friends and rivals — including Count Robert de Montesquiou-Fezensac, who became, much to his displeasure, the basis for Proust’s Baron de Charlus; and Prince Edmond de Polignac, “a discreet but known homosexual” who took up with the heiress to the Singer fortune, herself “a discreet but known lesbian.”
From New York Times
He was intrigued by the idea of an “intellectual and aesthetic shopping trip” to London, on which Pozzi embarked in the summer of 1885, accompanied by Prince Edmond de Polignac and Count Robert de Montesquiou.
From The Guardian
"Royal Fashion Minister Gustave du Polignac," an attendant announces.
From Literature
"Followed by her ladies-of-honor and the Royal Fashion Minister, Gustave du Polignac."
From Literature
Quite a few lived in the protective custody of mariages blancs, or what Hollywood called the “twilight tandem” – couples such as Edmond de Polignac and Winnaretta Singer, the sewing-machine heiress; actors Barbara Stanwyck and Robert Taylor; writers Paul and Jane Bowles.
From The Guardian
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