Count Robert de Montesquiou was the original of his homosexual character Baron de Charlus.  
Count Robert de Montesquiou was the original of his homosexual character Baron de Charlus.  He used Laure Hayman, his uncle's mistress, as the basis for his character Odette, and his lovers Reynaldo Hahn and Lucien Daudet were the model for Albertine.  All of these characters appear in a work published between 1913 and 1927, whose sections include Cities of the Plain and Swann's Way.  FTP, name this French writer who produced the lengthy novel Remembrance of Things Past.
Count Robert de Montesquiou was the original of his homosexual character Baron de Charlus.  
Marcel Proust