She will remain as one of the greatest collectors of her time.
A courted and coveted patron, discreet, even secret, but who never knew the crazy loves of Peggy Guggenheim or the dangerous liaisons of Marie-Laure de Noailles.
Unlucky with the union - divorce after five years from the Count of Béarn, married at 20 - Martine de Béhague made up for it with works of art, travel and music.
Nicknamed "the Byzantium of the seventh" by the dandy Robert de Montesquiou, his sumptuous residence on rue Saint-Dominique (which became the Romanian embassy on his death in 1939), welcomed the whole of Paris in its salons and theater. Byzantine style, the largest in the capital (600 seats).
We see her divinely lying on the so-called "Marquis de Marigny" daybed, attributed to Louis Delanois or Nicolas Heurtaut, next to a red chalk by Watteau, in the biography dedicated to her by Jean-David Jumeau-Lafond, published at Flammarion.
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