Alternative Names/Transliterations: Prince Edmond Melchior Jean Marie de Polignac
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Name in Other Languages: Edmundus de Polignac, Prince Edmond de Polignac, Эдмон де Полиньяк, Πρίγκιπας Εντμόν ντε Πολινιάκ, エドモン・ド・ポリニャック, پرينس ادموند د پوليجناك
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Aliases: Edmondus de Polignac, Edmundus Melchior Ioannes Maria de Polignac, Prince Edmond Melchior Jean Marie de Polignac, Edmond Melchior Jean Marie Prince de Polignac, Edmond Melchior Jean Marie de Polignac, Prins Edmond de Polignac
Husband of Winnaretta Singer (1865—1943). Their Polignac salon was a center of Parisian musical activity from 1894 until 1939. Marcel Proust probably heard the work which became the fictional Vinteuil Sonata there. He appears in the group portrait Le Cercle de la rue Royale by Tissot (1866), currently in the Orsay Museum, Paris
