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- noun French writer who collaborated with his brother Jules de Goncourt on many books and who in his will established the Prix Goncourt (1822-1896)
- noun French writer who collaborated with his brother Edmond de Goncourt on many books (1830-1870)
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Examples
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( "Les petites pudeurs n'existent pas pour les mères," remarks Goncourt, _Journal des Goncourt_, vol. iii, p. 5.)
Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 1 The Evolution of Modesty; The Phenomena of Sexual Periodicity; Auto-Erotism Havelock Ellis 1899
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The style of the painter has been judged as analogous to the novelist's; yet, apart from a preference for the same subjects for the "modernity" of Paris, there is not much in Degas that recalls Goncourt's staccato, febrile, sparkling, "decomposed", impressionistic prose.
Promenades of an Impressionist James Huneker 1890
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By this time Pasquini and de Goncourt had sprung to him, and he was sinking into their arms.
Chapter 11 2010
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An Author by Any Other Name The newly announced winner of the Goncourt, one of France's most prestigious literary prizes, is Alexis Jenni, a debut author so distant from Paris literary circles that at first it was thought his novel "L'Art français de la guerre" might have been penned by a famous writer using a pseudonym.
Bearing Witness to the War, Lest We Forget Lennox Morrison 2011
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At this, de Goncourt showed distressed acquiescence.
Chapter 11 2010
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Goncourt, whose presence surprised me, he being too good and noble a man for the company he kept.
Chapter 11 2010
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Also in the running are the Australian writer David Malouf, and the Indian Canadian novelist Rohinton Mistry, while the Chinese novelist Wang Anyi, the Goncourt prize-winning Lebanese author Amin Maalouf and the Italian playwright Dacia Maraini complete the shortlist.
Man Booker Prize: Amelia Hill on the 'Olympics of literature' 2011
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You, Raoul de Goncourt, I shall punish as you deserve for being in such bad company.
Chapter 11 2010
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Jonathan Littell's The Wellwishers, initially published in France as Les Bienveillantes – he is the first American to win the Prix Goncourt – has been highly controversial.
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When I made immediately to begin with de Goncourt, Bohemond protested that I should rest a space.
Chapter 11 2010
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