Novelist, playwright, misogynist and Nazi collaborator.
Single and a boy-lover. He may have been the father of Jean-Claude Barat, the executor and sole legatee of his estate.
Father: Joseph de Montherlant; Mother: Marguerite Camusat de Riancey. His maternal grandfather was Henri-Léon Camusat de Riancey, editor of the legitimist newspaper L'Union.