One hundred and twenty years ago, the Goncourt brothers created the Goncourt Literary Society.
The prestigious prize was born a year later.
Their work is now forgotten: who reads
Germinie Lacerteux
or
Sister Philomène
?
Their monumental
Diary
barely floats.
And yet, they left in their works a flowering of neologisms, some of which still permeate our daily lives.
The brothers dreamed
of "a personal language, a language bearing (their) signature"
, they made it a reality.
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everyday words
We therefore speak "Goncourt" without knowing it.
The "roundouillard", for example, born under the pen of the brothers designates the one who is overweight, who is chubby.
The whiny child is the one who complains about everything without much reason.
The “squabbles” between brothers and sisters still resonate in our vocabulary.
When you run "hastily" to an appointment at "Trifouillis-les-Oies", you still quote them without suspecting it.
Originally, "trifouillis" describes a pile of disparate objects...
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