Edmond de Goncourt
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Edmond Louis Antoine Huot de Goncourt was a French writer, literary critic, art critic, book publisher and the founder of the Académie Goncourt.
Portrait by Nadar, c. 1877
Nadar – Edmond and Jules de Goncourt (1822–1896 and 1830–1870) c. 1855
Etching on parchment portrait of Goncourt by Félix Bracquemond (1882)
Guy de Maupassant
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Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant was a 19th-century French author, celebrated as a master of the short story and associated with the naturalist literary school of thought, depicting human lives, de
Edmond de Goncourt
…late brother in 1885, and between 1887 and 1896 issued nine volumes of the Journal. Edmond became increasingly jealous of more successful writers like Guy de Maupassant and Émile Zola, which is reflected in scathing entries in the Journal. In 1893 he wrote of Maupassant that his "success with loose society women is an…
Maupassant photographed by Nadar, c. 1888
Guy de Maupassant aged 7 (Unbreeched)
Guy de Maupassant (Breeched) and his mother, Laure
His father, Gustave de Maupassant, by Hippolyte Bellangé