Edmond de Polignac
Edmond Melchior Jean Marie Prince de Polignac (born April 19, 1834 in Millemont , Département Seine-et-Oise , France , † August 8, 1901 in Paris ) was a French composer .
Life
Polignac came from the Polignac family and was the son of Duke Jules de Polignac (1780–1847), Prime Minister at the time of King Charles X , and Mary Charlotte Parkins (1792–1864).
Charles Haas (1833–1902) met Marcel Proust through the mediation of Edmond de Polignac . Haas became one of the models for the literary figure of Charles Swann in Proust's novel In Search of Lost Time .
Robert de Montesquiou and the Comtesse Greffulhe made contact with Winnaretta Singer , daughter and heiress of the sewing machine manufacturer Isaac Merritt Singer , who lived out her lesbian preferences more or less discreetly, just like Polignac his homosexual ones. On December 15, 1893, the then 59-year-old bachelor Polignac married the woman, who was over 30 years his junior, and entered into a harmonious and mutually beneficial mariage blanc (= marriage of convenience) that lasted until Polignac's death.
Together with his wife, Polignac founded an influential salon in Paris that became a center of cultural life and frequented many important artists such as Marcel Proust , Jean Cocteau and Claude Monet . In 1900 they acquired the Palazzo Contarini in Venice , which has since been called Palazzo Contarini Polignac .
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- ↑ George D. Painter : Marcel Proust. Paris 1966. p. 21
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Polignac, Edmond de |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Polignac, Edmond Melchior Jean Marie de |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French prince and composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 19, 1834 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Millemont , France |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 8, 1901 |
| Place of death | Paris |