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The Goncourt brothers (UK: / ɡ ɒ n ˈ k ʊər /, US: / ɡ oʊ ŋ ˈ k ʊər /, French: ⓘ) were Edmond de Goncourt (1822–1896) and Jules de Goncourt (1830–1870), both French naturalism writers who, as collaborative sibling authors, were inseparable in life.
Edmond and Jules Goncourt were French brothers, writers and constant collaborators who made significant contributions to the development of the naturalist novel and to the fields of social history and art criticism.
It was, in fact, only in 1786 that their great grandfather, Antoine Huot, bought the seigneurie of Goncourt, a little village in the Meuse valley. One of Huot’s grandsons, Marc-Pierre de Goncourt, served in Napoleon’s armies in Italy and Russia, and was pensioned off after Waterloo.
Edmond Louis Antoine Huot de Goncourt (pronounced [ɛdmɔ̃ də ɡɔ̃kuʁ]; 26 May 1822 – 16 July 1896) was a French writer, literary critic, art critic, book publisher and the founder of the Académie Goncourt.
Overview. Goncourt brothers. Quick Reference. French men of letters, aesthetes, art collectors, and historians. Edmond (1822–96) and Jules (1830–70) de Goncourt began their literary career, which remained a close collaboration until the death from syphilis ... From: Goncourt brothers in The Oxford Companion to Western Art »
Jul 21, 2015 · Edmond de Goncourt outlived many writers—among them his own brother, who died in 1872—and his records, in particular, demonstrate an obsession with death as celebrity’s shadow. For Edmond, fame is at once closely dogged by death and the only thing that can outstrip it.
Jules Alfred 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. Jules was born and died in Paris.
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