French historian born in Nancy, which he formed with his brother Jules-Alfred Huot de Goncourt (1830 - 1870), one of the most famous pairs of historians of literature. Belonging to a wealthy family, both traveled extensively throughout Europe and Africa and, from the beginning of their literary activity, worked in collaboration. They published their first texts in magazines and then devoted themselves to the study of 18th century history and art, a theme on which wrote documentary works such as Histoire de la société française pendant la révolution (1854) and L'Art du dix-huitième siècle (1859-1875).
After the age of thirty, they began to cultivate the narrative genre, to which they also applied the historicist criterion and its remarkable power of observation. Among the duo's main novels, Soeur Philomène (1861), Renée Mauperin (1864) and Germinie Lacerteux (1864) stand out, starting points for the birth of naturalism. They created the Journal (1851) of which they published 22 volumes and whose publication was continued by him after the death of his brother Jules (1870). He died in Champrosay, after creating the embryo of the Goncourt Academy, officially founded (1903) seven years after his death, which annually awards one of the most coveted prizes in French letters, and was buried in the Cimetiere de Montmartre, Paris, France.
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