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    The Goncourt brothers (UK: /ɡɒnˈkʊər/, US: /ɡoʊŋˈkʊər/, French: [ɡɔ̃kuʁ] ) were Edmond de Goncourt (1822–1896) and Jules de Goncourt (1830–1870), both...
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    founder of the Académie Goncourt. Goncourt was born in Nancy. His parents, Marc-Pierre Huot de Goncourt and Annette-Cécile de Goncourt (née Guérin), were minor...
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    Prix Goncourt (French: Le prix Goncourt, IPA: [lə pʁi ɡɔ̃kuʁ], The Goncourt Prize) is a prize in French literature, given by the académie Goncourt to the...
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    Huot de Goncourt (pronounced [ʒyl də ɡɔ̃kuʁ]; 17 December 1830 – 20 June 1870) was a French writer, who published books together with his brother Edmond...
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    expression in France in the 19th century, to the extent that the Goncourt brothers could refer to it as "a well-known old saying". It was utilised by...
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    The Goncourt Journal was a diary written in collaboration by the brothers Edmond and Jules de Goncourt from 1850 up to Jules' death in 1870, and then by...
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    in shedding light on the art of the period as those between the de Goncourt brothers do for literature. Theo van Gogh's wife, Johanna van Gogh-Bonger,...
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  • The Société littéraire des Goncourt (Goncourt Literary Society), usually called the Académie Goncourt (Goncourt Academy), is a French literary organisation...
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    widely esteemed by writers as disparate as Balzac, Baudelaire, the Goncourt brothers, Flaubert, Pound, Eliot, James, Proust and Wilde. Gautier was born...
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    Monsieur Hugo gives regarding the successful planning of riots." The Goncourt brothers judged the novel artificial and disappointing. Flaubert found "neither...
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    prominent Rothschild family of bankers. As a young man, according to the Goncourt brothers, he squandered "a million on the stock exchange in attempted secrecy...
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    Gustave Flaubert found within it "neither truth nor greatness", the Goncourt brothers lambasted its artificiality, and Baudelaire—despite giving favourable...
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    Germinie Lacerteux (category Works by the Goncourt brothers)
    Lacerteux (1865) is a grim, anti-Romantic novel by Edmond and Jules de Goncourt in which the authors aim to present, as they say, a "clinic of love." It...
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    brother Ernest Flammarion Goncourt brothers most famous all around the world with the Prix Goncourt, literature prize given by the académie Goncourt for...
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    new structures and rules had yet been created to replace them. The brothers Goncourt meticulously described the period on their Histoire de la société...
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    had become synonymous with the French Rococo style, leading the Goncourt brothers to write: "Boucher is one of those men who represent the taste of...
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    intellectuals of the era, such as Victor Hugo, George Sand, Émile Zola, the Goncourt brothers, Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve, Charles Baudelaire, Auguste Comte...
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    Baudelaire, in Paris Spleen "L. In Praise of Dogs" Nestor Roqueplan, the Goncourt brothers, Paul de Kock, Alexandre Dumas fils, and Henri Murger often found...
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    Geschichte Israels (Berlin, 1882), the first volume of the Journal of the Goncourt brothers, thoughts of Benjamin Constant on German theater, Ernest Renan's Life...
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  • Older Brother was a finalist for the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize in 2020. Her translation of Manette Salomon by the Goncourt Brothers won her...
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    Murger's Scènes de la vie de Bohème, Hugo's Les Misérables, the Goncourt brothers' Madame Gervaisais and Germinie Lacerteux, and Rostand's L'Aiglon...
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    business associates and fellow-writers such as Théophile Gautier, the Goncourt brothers, Guy de Maupassant, Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve, George Sand, Ivan...
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    included Heinrich Heine, Honoré de Balzac, Gioacchino Rossini and the Goncourt brothers. From the 1850s she and James spent time at the Château de Ferrières...
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    He made many acquaintances in France, including Franz Liszt, the Goncourt brothers, and the fellow Sorbonne student Georges Clemenceau. On his return...
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    des Goncourt, which was named after the writers Edmond de Goncourt (1822–1896) and his brother Jules de Goncourt (1830–1870). Edmond de Goncourt left...
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    Saint-Victor described the work as having “the poetry of a shipwreck.” The Goncourt brothers praised it liberally, and commented on the “smoky, gloomy, electric...
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    British Regency, and was later encapsulated by the Goncourt brothers in France (Edmond de Goncourt having published a catalogue raisonné in 1875) and...
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  • Crocodile" («Крокодил», Krokodil, short story published in Epoch) Goncourt brothers – Germinie Lacerteux Charles Kingsley – Hereward the Wake Sheridan...
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    translator of French fiction, including novels by Balzac and the Goncourt brothers, and Les Liaisons dangereuses by Choderlos de Laclos. In 1889 Dowson...
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  • Mathieu's 2018 novel of the same name, which received the prestigious Prix Goncourt. The film is produced by Hugo Sélignac for Chi-Fou-Mi Productions and by...
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