When Gabriel Yturri died in Neuilly July 6, 1905, Robert de Montesquiou is inconsolable.
Photographic portrait frontispiece of Yturri.
To keep the memory of that love of 20 years, and in memory of his friend, he did something to his measure, worthy of his flamboyant image of a dandy: he dedicated a book, printed in 100 copies and carefully connected, he distributes to his friends. It's one of those copies that I present today.
Everyone knows Robert de Montesquiou, a dandy from a very ancient family, born in 1855. It went down in history for being the model of Baron Charlus in Search of Lost Time . It would also inspired Huysmans for her character in Des Esseintes A Rebours , and Jean Lorrain Monsieur de Phocas . It is the very image of the homosexual end of the century.
Photographic portrait of Montesquiou young.
I prefer the portrait by Boldon we see everywhere.
On 16 March 1885, when Delacroix exhibition at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Robert de Montesquiou, just 30 years old, meets a handsome Argentine 21 years, Gabriel Yturri. This meeting will be born "twenty years of unparalleled friendship, burning zeal and permanent dedication and bold visionary, unalterable and constant loyalty." The two men seemed that everything could oppose, will live twenty years together. Gabriel Yturri (by the way has the aura Montesquiou a particle) will be the "secretary" of the flamboyant Earl, who will not hesitate to impose it on all the Great World in which he was one of the referees. All feared his judgments to the punch. Gabriel Yturri will serve him faithfully, making himself at his messenger and protector. Diabetic after a long decline, Gabriel Yturri died in Neuilly-sur-Seine, July 6, 1905. Three years later, Robert de Montesquiou distributes its closest friends this book: Chancellor of Flowers. Twelve stations friendship.
Chancellor Flowers recalls the nickname he gave him. The book is organized into twelve chapters ( Twelve stations friendship ):
- I - Preliminary .
- II - Predestination . Short biography of Gabirel Yturri before his meeting with Robert de Montesquiou. Born in Tucumán (Argentina) 12 March 1864, he was spotted by a priest, Kenelem Vaughan, "seeing these good qualities, and away from bad influences" (what bad influences?), Failure to come to Europe.
- III - Roman Friendship . Chapter on friendship in general, with many references to great friendships from the past: Cicero, Montaigne and La Boetie, and Bouilhet Flaubert, the Goncourt brothers, etc.. Ends on the meeting with Gabriel Yturri March 16, 1885, lightning strike that Montesquiou euphemistically called "the miracle of feeling": "attachment which, in its initial momentum, had reached the highest peaks emotional."
- IV - Correspondence (Alter) . Excerpts from the correspondence of Gabriel Yturri, opportunity to present his life and the feelings he had for the author. A facsimile of the writing of Gabriel Yturri (board out text) illustrates this chapter.
- V - Correspondence (Ego) . Extracts from the correspondence of Robert de Montesquiou
- VI - The cauldron . On a marble basin found at Versailles, and purchased by Montesquiou in his garden pavilion of the Muses in Neuilly. That Gabriel Yturri who undertook the transportation and installation of this basin.
- VII - Images and impressions . On different images (photographs and paintings) of Gabriel Yturri. It evokes the full-length portrait showing the work (see above), evidence "that the meeting is intimate, and yet without trouble." The "footprints" are all the good memories he left with those who knew. The list is worthy of the Bottin Mondain-.
- VIII - Dedications and poems . Contains all the dedications and poems addressed to Gabriel Yturri or has inspired.
- IX - Finishes Coronat . Story of recent months and the death of Gabriel Yturri
- X - The Flower . Letters of condolence received by Robert de Montesquiou after the death of Gabriel Yturri. Among these letters, there are names Barres, Francois Coppe, Lucien Daudet, La Gandara, Countess Greffulhe, Reynaldo Hahn, Dr. Mardrus, Anna de Noailles. Many names of correspondents remind the world of Marcel Proust to his readers: Greffulhe, Caraman-Chimay, Brancoveanu Lemaire, Daudet, etc.. The letter from Marcel Proust, is the longest: "I have great sorrow tonight, plus any regret not having seen. . Indeed, "so ill", Proust could not get to his bedside and had sent his mother!
- XI - Libation and Nénies. Responses of Robert de Montesquiou
- XII - Hic jacet . On the grave of Gabriel Yturri Versailles Cemetery. Robert Montesquieu was buried in the same grave. This chapter is illustrated with a black and white photograph of the grave.
This angel who calls us to silence is a good conclusion for this profound story of love between two men. What better testimony than to dedicate this book, a monument of paper aged in his memory!
Yet this beautiful love story behind it carted its share of scandal and gossip. Some have termed Yturri Gigolo, as reported by Ghislain de Diesbach, in its sum on Proust (Perrin, 1991). It overwhelms Montesquiou its biting irony, calling this book is "more strange evidence that can inspire love allied to vanity."
can also talk about idle discussions about the exact nature of the physical relationship between them (see instructions Wkipedia!). Montesquieu has always hinted that their relationship was chaste, but this was perhaps one facet of the character he was building in the eyes of others. Mr. Larivière ( Homosexual and bisexual famous ) not believing, relates anecdotes about gravel dredges de Montesquiou in urinals around the Ecole Militaire.
Fortunately, Philippe Jullian in the beautiful old-biography that he dedicated to Montesquieu, is more measured, knowing justice to the importance for Montesuiou What would Yturri, soothing "mood of the master", the second in "hunting for trinkets, "but especially the following as his shadow. It relates still before the meet, was a salesman Yturri tie In Venice Carnival blouse Boulevard de la Madeleine and was already "protected" from Baron Doazan, another famous gay time . He added qu'Yturri "has not rolled his evil boss and knows the intrigues of the gay demimonde. However, Jullian not going to describe it as a gigolo. Further, he concludes: "Whatever may have been reports of Robert and Gabriel, and we may well believe them innocent, the poet never attempted to replace Yturri, he sought the disciples but not a friend."
All this should not make us forget that we do not live with a man for twenty years, to accompany him in his decline and death, if it is a gigolo. Dedicate a book to a friend death can not be vanity. I believe in the power of love that united these two beings, and nobody ever will know what they were for each other in privacy. I want to finish this evocation by image
It shows the beautiful light that is on Yturri Monesquiou (curiously from behind, perhaps to not show his own tenderness, that it would have to reveal another face of it, by getting rid of his mask flamboyant dandy). I see in the eyes of Yturri of tenderness, complicity and a little protection.
Description of structure
Slnn (Chateaudun, La Maison du Livre), 1907, in-8 (245 x 190 mm), 302 - [14] pp., 3 inset plates (two black and white photographs and a facsimile) with a frontispiece.
unnumbered pages at the end of the book contain a table and errata.
The imprint is 1908.
The book is bound in full marbled calf, as struck cold on the front cover, smooth spine, author, title and date back to the golden, gilded head, fitting.
It seems that all copies have been linked to the same, probably at the instigation of Montesquieu himself. Indeed, it is hard to imagine providing a paperback.
The book was pulled to 100 numbered copies, "printed exclusively for the author." He explains on page 42:
"Besides, this book, whose future will do what pleases him, treating him as he deserves, is, for now, for only a few. This small number, it will be those who, through misunderstanding of life, and despite the ignorance of the world, were able to disentangle Being exceptionally long they saw from me, some of these traits that are sufficient by their nobility, to learn about this book that do item, a feeling or thought. "
This copy is No. 100, no indication of the addressee or sent.
In public libraries (CCRB), there are only two copies at the BNF:
- No. 40: copy given to Henri Lavedan, with transmission: MZ-364 Res. Contains correspondence between the author and H. Lavedan about sending the former., Including 3 letters of the author, the 1st of April 28, 1906 containing a memory-image of G. Yturri of the other 2, July 1908, and the letter of thanks from H. Lavedan, 14 July 1908. This copy was scanned ( click here).
- No. 8: copy of Maurice Barres, with transmission: Barres Z-8908
There is also a copy at the British Library
A copy was given to Dr. Jacquet, with a shipment. After the death of the doctor, the book returned to Robert de Montesquiou, then went into the sale of his books in 1923. Then enriched with a photograph of Montesquieu, Henry Pinard's last secretary, it was proposed by Jacques Desse in its catalog "Archives gays and lesbians", 2005 (No. 836).
From correspondence with Henri Lavedan, as well as other information gleaned from the Internet, we deduce that the book was distributed in July 1908. Robert de Montesquiou gave reading June 27, 1908, reading Proust that regretted not having been invited.
Excerpts are available at:
www.reynaldo-hahn.net/Html/ecritsdiversChancelier.htm
Link on a recent page about another aspect of Montesquieu's life, his relationship with Leo Delafosse (we see also another photo of the couple Montesquiou / Yturri):
frounch.blogspot.com/2010/03/leon-delafosse-et-robert-montesquiou.html
Photographic portrait frontispiece of Yturri. To keep the memory of that love of 20 years, and in memory of his friend, he did something to his measure, worthy of his flamboyant image of a dandy: he dedicated a book, printed in 100 copies and carefully connected, he distributes to his friends. It's one of those copies that I present today.
Everyone knows Robert de Montesquiou, a dandy from a very ancient family, born in 1855. It went down in history for being the model of Baron Charlus in Search of Lost Time . It would also inspired Huysmans for her character in Des Esseintes A Rebours , and Jean Lorrain Monsieur de Phocas . It is the very image of the homosexual end of the century.
Photographic portrait of Montesquiou young. I prefer the portrait by Boldon we see everywhere.
On 16 March 1885, when Delacroix exhibition at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Robert de Montesquiou, just 30 years old, meets a handsome Argentine 21 years, Gabriel Yturri. This meeting will be born "twenty years of unparalleled friendship, burning zeal and permanent dedication and bold visionary, unalterable and constant loyalty." The two men seemed that everything could oppose, will live twenty years together. Gabriel Yturri (by the way has the aura Montesquiou a particle) will be the "secretary" of the flamboyant Earl, who will not hesitate to impose it on all the Great World in which he was one of the referees. All feared his judgments to the punch. Gabriel Yturri will serve him faithfully, making himself at his messenger and protector. Diabetic after a long decline, Gabriel Yturri died in Neuilly-sur-Seine, July 6, 1905. Three years later, Robert de Montesquiou distributes its closest friends this book: Chancellor of Flowers. Twelve stations friendship.
Chancellor Flowers recalls the nickname he gave him. The book is organized into twelve chapters ( Twelve stations friendship ):
- I - Preliminary .
- II - Predestination . Short biography of Gabirel Yturri before his meeting with Robert de Montesquiou. Born in Tucumán (Argentina) 12 March 1864, he was spotted by a priest, Kenelem Vaughan, "seeing these good qualities, and away from bad influences" (what bad influences?), Failure to come to Europe.
- III - Roman Friendship . Chapter on friendship in general, with many references to great friendships from the past: Cicero, Montaigne and La Boetie, and Bouilhet Flaubert, the Goncourt brothers, etc.. Ends on the meeting with Gabriel Yturri March 16, 1885, lightning strike that Montesquiou euphemistically called "the miracle of feeling": "attachment which, in its initial momentum, had reached the highest peaks emotional."
- IV - Correspondence (Alter) . Excerpts from the correspondence of Gabriel Yturri, opportunity to present his life and the feelings he had for the author. A facsimile of the writing of Gabriel Yturri (board out text) illustrates this chapter.
- V - Correspondence (Ego) . Extracts from the correspondence of Robert de Montesquiou
- VI - The cauldron . On a marble basin found at Versailles, and purchased by Montesquiou in his garden pavilion of the Muses in Neuilly. That Gabriel Yturri who undertook the transportation and installation of this basin.
- VII - Images and impressions . On different images (photographs and paintings) of Gabriel Yturri. It evokes the full-length portrait showing the work (see above), evidence "that the meeting is intimate, and yet without trouble." The "footprints" are all the good memories he left with those who knew. The list is worthy of the Bottin Mondain-.
- VIII - Dedications and poems . Contains all the dedications and poems addressed to Gabriel Yturri or has inspired.
- IX - Finishes Coronat . Story of recent months and the death of Gabriel Yturri
- X - The Flower . Letters of condolence received by Robert de Montesquiou after the death of Gabriel Yturri. Among these letters, there are names Barres, Francois Coppe, Lucien Daudet, La Gandara, Countess Greffulhe, Reynaldo Hahn, Dr. Mardrus, Anna de Noailles. Many names of correspondents remind the world of Marcel Proust to his readers: Greffulhe, Caraman-Chimay, Brancoveanu Lemaire, Daudet, etc.. The letter from Marcel Proust, is the longest: "I have great sorrow tonight, plus any regret not having seen. . Indeed, "so ill", Proust could not get to his bedside and had sent his mother!
- XI - Libation and Nénies. Responses of Robert de Montesquiou
- XII - Hic jacet . On the grave of Gabriel Yturri Versailles Cemetery. Robert Montesquieu was buried in the same grave. This chapter is illustrated with a black and white photograph of the grave.
This angel who calls us to silence is a good conclusion for this profound story of love between two men. What better testimony than to dedicate this book, a monument of paper aged in his memory! Yet this beautiful love story behind it carted its share of scandal and gossip. Some have termed Yturri Gigolo, as reported by Ghislain de Diesbach, in its sum on Proust (Perrin, 1991). It overwhelms Montesquiou its biting irony, calling this book is "more strange evidence that can inspire love allied to vanity."
can also talk about idle discussions about the exact nature of the physical relationship between them (see instructions Wkipedia!). Montesquieu has always hinted that their relationship was chaste, but this was perhaps one facet of the character he was building in the eyes of others. Mr. Larivière ( Homosexual and bisexual famous ) not believing, relates anecdotes about gravel dredges de Montesquiou in urinals around the Ecole Militaire.
Fortunately, Philippe Jullian in the beautiful old-biography that he dedicated to Montesquieu, is more measured, knowing justice to the importance for Montesuiou What would Yturri, soothing "mood of the master", the second in "hunting for trinkets, "but especially the following as his shadow. It relates still before the meet, was a salesman Yturri tie In Venice Carnival blouse Boulevard de la Madeleine and was already "protected" from Baron Doazan, another famous gay time . He added qu'Yturri "has not rolled his evil boss and knows the intrigues of the gay demimonde. However, Jullian not going to describe it as a gigolo. Further, he concludes: "Whatever may have been reports of Robert and Gabriel, and we may well believe them innocent, the poet never attempted to replace Yturri, he sought the disciples but not a friend."
All this should not make us forget that we do not live with a man for twenty years, to accompany him in his decline and death, if it is a gigolo. Dedicate a book to a friend death can not be vanity. I believe in the power of love that united these two beings, and nobody ever will know what they were for each other in privacy. I want to finish this evocation by image
It shows the beautiful light that is on Yturri Monesquiou (curiously from behind, perhaps to not show his own tenderness, that it would have to reveal another face of it, by getting rid of his mask flamboyant dandy). I see in the eyes of Yturri of tenderness, complicity and a little protection. Description of structure
Slnn (Chateaudun, La Maison du Livre), 1907, in-8 (245 x 190 mm), 302 - [14] pp., 3 inset plates (two black and white photographs and a facsimile) with a frontispiece.
unnumbered pages at the end of the book contain a table and errata.
The imprint is 1908.
The book is bound in full marbled calf, as struck cold on the front cover, smooth spine, author, title and date back to the golden, gilded head, fitting.
It seems that all copies have been linked to the same, probably at the instigation of Montesquieu himself. Indeed, it is hard to imagine providing a paperback.
The book was pulled to 100 numbered copies, "printed exclusively for the author." He explains on page 42:
"Besides, this book, whose future will do what pleases him, treating him as he deserves, is, for now, for only a few. This small number, it will be those who, through misunderstanding of life, and despite the ignorance of the world, were able to disentangle Being exceptionally long they saw from me, some of these traits that are sufficient by their nobility, to learn about this book that do item, a feeling or thought. "
This copy is No. 100, no indication of the addressee or sent. In public libraries (CCRB), there are only two copies at the BNF:
- No. 40: copy given to Henri Lavedan, with transmission: MZ-364 Res. Contains correspondence between the author and H. Lavedan about sending the former., Including 3 letters of the author, the 1st of April 28, 1906 containing a memory-image of G. Yturri of the other 2, July 1908, and the letter of thanks from H. Lavedan, 14 July 1908. This copy was scanned ( click here).
- No. 8: copy of Maurice Barres, with transmission: Barres Z-8908
There is also a copy at the British Library
A copy was given to Dr. Jacquet, with a shipment. After the death of the doctor, the book returned to Robert de Montesquiou, then went into the sale of his books in 1923. Then enriched with a photograph of Montesquieu, Henry Pinard's last secretary, it was proposed by Jacques Desse in its catalog "Archives gays and lesbians", 2005 (No. 836).
From correspondence with Henri Lavedan, as well as other information gleaned from the Internet, we deduce that the book was distributed in July 1908. Robert de Montesquiou gave reading June 27, 1908, reading Proust that regretted not having been invited.
Excerpts are available at:
www.reynaldo-hahn.net/Html/ecritsdiversChancelier.htm
Link on a recent page about another aspect of Montesquieu's life, his relationship with Leo Delafosse (we see also another photo of the couple Montesquiou / Yturri):
frounch.blogspot.com/2010/03/leon-delafosse-et-robert-montesquiou.html
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