Daily Dose

From The Man in the Red Coat, by Julian Barnes

HARD

"It was hard to pierce Robert de Montesquiou's carapace -- and he wouldn't have wanted you to."

From page 194

Daily Dose

From Proust, by Edmund White

THE COMTE DE MONTESQUIOU

"Everyone worried about his memoirs, which were to be published posthumously.  The book, however, turned out to be a monument to vanity but fairly innocuous in its account of other people.  His cousin the comtesse Greffulhe found it boring, saying, 'It's not quite what one expects of a dead man.'"

From Chapter 11