Ka cika wannan jumla: Yaron ɗan'uwan Ferdinand Léon de Montesquiou ya shiga cikin muhawara ta siyasa da ilimi na Jamhuriyar ta Uku da "Belle Époque". Asali mai sassaucin ra'ayi na hagu, ya shiga ƙungiyar "Ligue de la patrie française" mai tsananin ƙarfi a 1898. Ya zama memba mai kafa babban "Action Française" a shekara mai zuwa, yana samun suna a matsayin mai koyar da akidar kishin kasa da antisemitic da kuma marubuci kan batutuwan Romania. Bayan ya rasa matsayin sa na jami'in saboda farfagandar anti-Dreyfusard, ya shiga soja a matsayin soja na yau da kullun a Yammacin Yamma. Léon ya sake dawowa a matsayin Lieutenant, amma an kashe shi a lokacin yakin basasa.
Yaƙin Champagne na biyu, a Souain. Wani ɗan'uwa, Raoul, wanda ya rayu har zuwa shekara ta 1934, ya yi yawancin lokacinsa a Château de Courtanvaux a Bessé-sur-Braye.