Edmond de Goncourt, French author mb-code SF15420 A knife and scissors grinder

A knife and scissors grinder at work

Bottomley was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1888

Sir Claudius Stephen Hunter

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Edmond de Goncourt, French author mb-code SF15420 A knife and scissors grinderEdmond de Goncourt, French author, 1868. Goncourt (1822 1896) was an author, critic and publisher. He bequeathed his entire estate for the foundation of the Academie Goncourt, which, since 1903, awards the Prix Goncourt, the most prestigious award in French literature. A photograph from Album de Photographies dans L'Intimite de Personnages Illustres, 1860 1925, 9th album, Editions MD, Paris.