The following essay discusses Edmond de Goncourt and his brother, Jules de Goncourt. Edmond and Jules de Goncourt, brothers and lifelong, intimate friends, played a role of considerable importance in the development of French culture, and especially...
Baron Edmond de Rothschild, 71, a philanthropist, international financier and member of the Rothschild banking dynasty whose personal holdings had included famous Bordeaux vineyards, died of emphysema Nov. 2 in Geneva. The baron's father, a Jewish senator in France during World War II,...
French Gen. Edmond Jouhaud, 90, once condemned to death for trying to oust French President Charles de Gaulle and keep Algeria French, died Sept. 4 in the west coast resort of Royan, France. The cause of death was not reported. Gen. Jouhaud, who...
