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d'Orsay, Alfred Guillaume Gabriel

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d'Orsay, Alfred Guillaume Gabriel (1801-1857)

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A portrait of Byron by E Lloyd, from a sketch by Byron's contemporary and friend, Count Alfred d'Orsay. Byron was also a friend of Lady Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington and author of A Journal of Conversations with Lord Byron. Marguerite left her husband and Ireland in 1829 and moved to London, to live with her lover, d'Orsay.

French dandy. For 20 years he resided with the Irish writer Lady Blessington in London at Gore House, where he became known as an arbiter of taste.



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