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Novel In his will, Edmond de Goncourt (1822-1896) left a bequest in honor of his brother Jules de Goncourt (1830-1870) to establish and support a French literary salon, the Académie Goncourt, and later the famous Prix Goncourt, an award that to this day remains Frances most significant literary prize. The Goncourt brothers, who co-authored a series of novels on social themes, were among the founders of literary Naturalism in France. Emile Zola would emerge as this movements most important representative in his cycle of novels Les Rougon-Macquart. * * * Among the novels co-written by the Goncourt brothers, Germinie Lacerteux (1865) is especially noteworthy. The double-life of the novels Parisian domestic servant, who is ground down and destroyed by the conditions she lives in, but who for decades keeps these conditions hidden from her employer, continues to captivate book-lovers in France and the rest of the world to this day.
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