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1 day ago · Victor-Marie Hugo, vicomte Hugo [1] ( French pronunciation: [viktɔʁ maʁi yɡo] ⓘ; 26 February 1802 – 22 May 1885), sometimes nicknamed the Ocean Man, was a French Romantic writer and politician. During a literary career that spanned more than sixty years, he wrote in a variety of genres and forms.
Jul 1, 2024 · Le Prix Goncourt was conceived by the famous Goncourt Brothers (Edmond and Jules) in 1867 but not established until 1900. As authors and (somewhat frustrated) literary critics, these brothers compiled their own masterpiece, Journal des Goncourt, that chronicles the literary world of 19th
Jun 26, 2024 · Les frères Goncourt, Edmond and Jules, spent their lives following the new Parisian authors of the day and critiquing not only their writings, but their lifestyles and occasionally even their personal appearances. Feeling frustrated with their own literary aspirations, they were determined to leave some mark on the French literary canon.
6 days ago · He also introduced him to some of the leading writers of the time, such as Émile Zola, Ivan Turgenev, Edmond Goncourt, and Henry James. “He’s my disciple and I love him like a son,” Flaubert said of Maupassant.
- Guy de Maupassant is regarded as the best French writer of short stories. His 300 stories were written in the naturalist style and often described...
- Guy de Maupassant studied law and served in the military during the Franco-German War. His literary education came through his informal apprentices...
- Guy de Maupassant learned in his early 20s that he had syphilis, which was then a frightening and widespread malady. He refused to undergo treatmen...
Jun 19, 2024 · This collection brings together primary sources on gardens and gardening across the long nineteenth-century. Economic expansion, empire, the growth of the middle classes and suburbia, the changing role of women and the professionalisation of gardening, alongside industrialisation and the development of leisure and mass markets were ...
4 days ago · The exhibition will also explore the painting’s rich and varied critical reception and its far-reaching artistic legacy. This powerful, enigmatic image has greatly inspired French writers, including Théophile Gautier, Charles Baudelaire, Paul Verlaine, George Sand, the Goncourt brothers and Jacques Prévert.
4 days ago · Among his friends and correspondents were Flaubert, the Goncourt brothers, Maupassant, Villiers de l’Isle-Adam and Mallarmé – a representative cross-section of the many literary tendencies of the time. Huysmans’ ²rst novel, Marthe, histoire d’une ±lle (Marthe: Story of a Prostitute), was published in 1876.
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