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The brothers' uncle, Pierre Antoine Victor Huot de Goncourt, was a deputy for the Vosges in the National Assembly between 1848 and 1851. In 1860, the brothers applied to the Keeper of the Seals for the exclusive use of the noble title "de Goncourt", but their claim was refused. Partnership
Edmond and Jules Goncourt (respectively, born May 26, 1822, Nancy, France—died July 16, 1896, Champrosay; born December 17, 1830, Paris—died June 20, 1870, Auteuil) 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.
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Edmond de Goncourt and his brother Jules remain a phenomenon in French literature. They wrote in such sensitive collaboration that, although death ended the partnership early, they are seldom mentioned apart. ‘I have never seen more perfect or more extraordinary harmony,’ wrote Joseph Primoli in 1869. ‘One wears the watch and the other ...
Nadar – Edmond and Jules de Goncourt (1822–1896 and 1830–1870) c. 1855. In 1852, Edmond and his brother were indicted for an "outrage against public morality" after they quoted erotic Renaissance poetry in an article. [6] They were ultimately acquitted. Edmond was known to be fascinated with Rococo and Japanese art. [7]
Jules de Goncourt. Profile on his grave. 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. His death at the age of 39 was at Auteuil of a stroke brought on by syphilis.
Jul 21, 2015 · Celebrity and oblivion in the Goncourt brothers. Few documents provide as comprehensive—or as caustic—a view of celebrity as the diary of the Goncourt brothers, Jules and Edmond. Chronicling literary Paris from 1851 to 1896, The Journal of the de Goncourts features enough searing bons mots and scandal mongering to make Gawker look like a Sunday school brochure. […]
Jun 28, 1970 · One of the brothers' earliest collaborative efforts was their critical essay on the Paris Salon of 1852. Edmund was then 30 years old, Jules 22. Twenty years later, when Jules was dead, Edmund, in ...
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