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Élémir Bourges
Élémir Bourges (26 March 1852, Manosque, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence – 13 November 1925) was a French novelist. A winner of the Goncourt Prize, he was also a member of the Académie Goncourt. Bourges, who accused the Naturalists of having "belittled and deformed man", was closely linked with the Decadent and Symbolist modes in literature. His works, which include the 1884 novel "Le Crépuscule des dieux" ("the Twilight of the Gods"), were informed by
it is in homage to the Haitian poet Ignace Nau; or all or none of the above.
Many of his works remained unedited at his death and are unpublished as of 2011.
Prix Goncourt.
In 1903 a group writers gathered in Paris (J. K. Huysmans, Octave Mirbeau, Léon Daudet, the brothers Rosny, Paul Marguerite, Lucien Desclaves, Élémir Bourges, Léon Hennique, Gustave Geffroy) and awarded "Enemy Force" the first Prix Goncourt (by a vote of 6 to 4). Edmond