Goncourt

[ gawn-koor; English gon-koor ]

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noun

Ed·mond Louis An·toine Hu·ot de [ed-, mawn, lwee ah, n, -, twan, , y, -, oh, d, uh], 1822–96, and his brother Jules Al·fred Huot de [zhyl, a, l-, fred], 1830–70, French art critics, novelists, and historians: collaborators until the death of Jules.
Prix Gon·court [pree, gon-, koor, p, r, ee gaw, n, -, koor], an annual award of money made by a French literary society Académie Goncourt for the best prose work of the year.

Goncourt

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GoncourtEdmond Louis Antoine Huot de18221896MFrenchTHEATRE: writer GoncourtJules Alfred Huot de18301870MFrenchTHEATRE: writer Edmond Louis Antoine Huot de (ɛdmɔ̃ lwi ɑ̃twan yo də), 1822–96, and his brother, Jules Alfred Huot de (ʒyl alfrɛd), 1830–70, French writers, noted for their collaboration, esp on their Journal , and for the Académie Goncourt founded by Edmond's will

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The Goncourt, the French literary prize, has lifelong judges—often themselves novelists.

But at least the Goncourt, with its derisory 50NF cash reward, had clean hands.

When the Booker Prize was launched as the “British Goncourt” in 1969, it was met by a universal guffaw.

Rightly has Edmond de Goncourt called him a lyric poet, the great poet of the eighteenth century.

The paragraphs quoted are interesting, however, as showing De Goncourt's state of mind in that year.

Si les Goncourt taient devenus populaires, si la notion du style pouvait pntrer dans les cerveaux moyens!

Flaubert devait beaucoup Chateaubriand: il serait difficile de nommer le matre des Goncourt.

The sordid is there in all conscience as you would find it in De Goncourt, but Joyce's power is in his scope.

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