The writers and dandies Charles Baudelaire and Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly also had some influence, but the most important model was the notorious aristocratic aesthete Robert de Montesquiou, who was also the basis for Baron de Charlus in Marcel Proust's * la recherche du temps perdu. Montesquiou's furnishings bear a strong resemblance to those in Des Esseintes's house: In 1883, to _his_ eternal regret, Montesquiou admitted St*phane Mallarm* (to his home). <sep>, Pronoun: his <sep>, A: Montesquiou <sep>, B: St*phane Mallarm*