French aristocrat and writer Jacques d’Adelswärd-Fersen was BOTD in 1880. Born in Paris to a prominent steel manufacturing family with aristocratic lineage (his ancestor was Axel Fersen, the reputed lover of Marie Antoinette), he grew up in luxury. He had his first reported homosexual experience while on holiday in Jersey, with an unidentified blond Eton schoolboy. He flirted briefly with higher education until coming into his trust fund, then settled into life as a socialite and writer, publishing collections of homoerotic poetry and the novel Notre-Dame des mers mortes. He became notorious for hosting orgies at his Paris apartment with teenaged boys selected from prestigious schools. In 1903, he and his friend Albert de Warren were arrested, tried and found guilty of inciting minors to commit debauchery. The trial became the scandal of Paris, with lascivious tabloid reporting about d’Adelswärd’s “Black Masses”. His reputation in ruins, d’Adelswärd moved to Capri, where he built the lavish Villa Lysis, befriended photographer Wilhelm von Gloeden and writer Norman Douglas, hosted lavish orgies and acquired a strapping young construction worker, Nino Cesarini, as his live-in lover. He satirised his Paris scandal in the 1905 novel Lord Lyllian, a satirical roman-a-clef about a young aristocrat who goes on an odyssey of homosexual debauchery. He also edited a short-lived literary journal Akademos, with contributions from Colette, Maxim Gorky and Anatole France. His 1909 novel Et le feu s’éteignit sur la mer… (And the fire went out on the sea…), a gossipy account of expatriate life in Capri, outraged his neighbouring pederasts, who had him driven off the island. After travelling in Europe and the Far East for three years, he and Cesarini were permitted to return to Capri. Declared unfit for military service in 1914 due to his opium addiction, he spent the rest of his life in Capri, acquiring a a young Italian lover, Corrado Annicelli. He died in 1923, aged 43, from an overdose of champagne and cocaine. His life was the subject of Roger Peyrefitte‘s 1959 novel The Exile of Capri, while the Villa Lysis has become a popular tourist attraction in Capri.