Nathalie Léger writes beautifully of all these facts, but not necessarily in that order, since this is not at all a biography. He kept them in this Pavillon des Muses in the Palais Rose in Le Vesinet. Montesquiou wrote her biography (published in 1913), and collected, obsessively more than half of those 700 photographs. And last but not least, she exerted fascination on one of the most fascinating gentlemen of the French Belle Époque, Robert de Montesquiou, a very familiar figure for Proustians. As an Emperor was not enough, she became the lover of King Vittorio Emanuele II, who undoubtedly found her fascinating. He photographed her around 700 times along four decades. The Emperor’s photographer, Pierre-Louis Pierson (1822-1913) inevitably fell under her spell and became fascinated too. A figure no less than Emperor Napoleon III was also fascinated and, expectedly, converted her in his lover. First of all, she was fascinated with herself (elle avait pour elle-même un culte qui frisait l’idolâtrie). The fascinating Virginia Oldoïni (1837-1899) who became Contessa de Castiglione when she was just sixteen, was an Italian (Tuscan) beauty that fascinated many people. I just wish young women addicted to the Selfie culture read this.
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As a Fulbright-Hays Scholar in 1980, he conducted research on ecological planning at the Wageningen Agricultural and Environmental Science University, The Netherlands. Steiner is a Fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects and Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture and a presidential appointee to the national board of the American Institute of Architects. He has also taught planning, landscape architecture, and environmental science at Arizona State University, where he was Director of the School of Planning and Landscape Architecture, College of Architecture and Environmental Design Washington State University and the University of Colorado–Denver. Previously, he was Dean of the School of Architecture at the University of Texas–Austin for 15 years. Frederick Steiner is Dean and Paley Professor at the University of Pennsylvania School of Design. It makes me want to jump into their world. 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