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The Goncourt brothers are paradoxical: few authors are at once so famous and so little read. Ahead of their time, the Goncourts experienced the same fate as many of their precursors: their inventions were attributed to those who knew how to exploit them. Is it known today, for example, that they were amongst the inventors of social history? Or that their conception of modernity allowed Baudelaire to find his? Numerous innovations complete the list of those they are habitually credited with.
CLIL theme: 4027 -- SCIENCES HUMAINES ET SOCIALES, LETTRES -- Lettres et Sciences du langage -- Lettres -- Etudes littéraires générales et thématiques