BOOKS: ADONIS IN PANTALOONS; Count D'Orsay changed gloves six times a day and minced around in sky-blue pants and clanking gold chains. Marianne Brace finds this 19th-century peacock's love life as fascinating as his fashions; Last of the Dandies By Nick Foulkes LITTLE, BROWN pounds 20 pounds 18 (+ pounds 2.25 P&P PER ORDER) 0870 800 1122.(Features) From: The Independent on Sunday (London, England) | Date: May 4, 2003| Author: | COPYRIGHT 2003 Independent Newspapers (UK) Ltd. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information) Copyright information

H e was six foot three, "built like a tower" with floods of dark auburn hair. His school friend, the French poet Comte de Vigny, praised his "rosebud lips". Byron called him a "Cupidon dechaine". Carlyle declared he was "unsurpassable on this planet". Even one of Wellington's officers remarked that the man could "serve as a model for statuary... beautiful as the Apollo Belvedere in his outward form".

If most of us only know the name d'Orsay as a Parisian museum, in his time Count Alfred was considered a huge celebrity. Crowds chanted if they saw him in the street. He inspired ...

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