Edmond de Goncourt and Jules de Goncourt

Edmond de Goncourt was born in Nancy on 26 May 1822, his brother Jules in Paris on 17 December 1830. They published together from 1851, became historians of eighteenth-century society and kept a journal of literary life. Jules died on 20 June 1870. Edmond continued the joint work alone, received writers in his attic at Auteuil and founded the Académie Goncourt by will. He died at Champrosay on 16 July 1896.

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• NovelGerminie LacerteuxEdmond de Goncourt and Jules de Goncourt · 1865LiteraturePublic domain