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Goncourt

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Goncourt
Edmond Louis Antoine Huot de , 1822--96, and his brother, Jules Alfred Huot de , 1830--70, French writers, noted for their collaboration, esp on their Journal, and for the Acad?mie Goncourt founded by Edmond's will

Goncourt
annual award for best French fiction. [Fr. Lit.: NCE, 1106]
See : Prize


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She herself had no fears of it, and the books scattered about her drawing-room (a part of the house in which books were usually supposed to be "out of place"), though chiefly works of fiction, had whetted Archer's interest with such new names as those of Paul Bourget, Huysmans, and the Goncourt brothers.
 
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