Tuhia he haere tonu mo tenei waahanga - Ko te teina o Ferdinand a Léon de Montesquiou i uru ki nga tautohetohe torangapu me te hinengaro o te Tuatoru o te Republic me te "Belle Époque". I te timatanga he kaitiaki maui-maui, i uru atu ia ki te "Ligue de la patrie française" i te tau 1898. I noho ia hei mema taketake o te "Action Française" nui ake i te tau e whai ake nei, i whiwhi i tana ingoa hei kaiwhakaako-anati-anti-Semitic me te kaituhi mo nga kaupapa Romanian. I te ngaro o tana rangatira rangatira mo tana kaupapa whakahee ki a Dreyfusard, i uru ia hei hoia noa ki te Hauauru o te Hauauru. I te mutunga ka whakahoutia a Léon hei Lieutenant, engari i mate i te mahi i te Pakanga Tuarua o Champagne
, i Souain. Ko tētahi atu teina, ko Raoul, i ora ki te tau 1934, i noho te nuinga o tōna wā ki te Château de Courtanvaux i Bessé-sur-Braye.