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	English poet and writer on sexuality, [[Marc André Raffalovich]] is best known today for his patronage of the arts and for his long friendship with [[John Gray]], who may have been the model for Oscar Wilde's Dorian Gray and who became a Roman Catholic priest in Edinburgh. [http://www.glbtq.com/arts/raffalovich_ma.html]		English poet and writer on sexuality, [[Marc André Raffalovich]] is best known today for his patronage of the arts and for his long friendship with [[John Gray]], who may have been the model for Oscar Wilde's Dorian Gray and who became a Roman Catholic priest in Edinburgh. [http://www.glbtq.com/arts/raffalovich_ma.html]
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		+	Born in Paris into a wealthy and cultivated Russo-Jewish family, Raffalovich went to England in 1882. His original intention had been to take his degree at Oxford University, but instead he settled in London. There, in his mansion in Mayfair, he entertained on a lavish scale with the object of founding a salon for writers and artists. [http://andrejkoymasky.com/liv/fam/bior1/raff1.html]

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English poet and writer on sexuality, Marc André Raffalovich is best known today for his patronage of the arts and for his long friendship with John Gray, who may have been the model for Oscar Wilde's Dorian Gray and who became a Roman Catholic priest in Edinburgh. [1]

Born in Paris into a wealthy and cultivated Russo-Jewish family, Raffalovich went to England in 1882. His original intention had been to take his degree at Oxford University, but instead he settled in London. There, in his mansion in Mayfair, he entertained on a lavish scale with the object of founding a salon for writers and artists. [2]