Did the Goncourt brothers marry?

Question

Did they have children? Who were they married to, names of children?

Answer 1

Goncourt Brothers never married -

The Goncourt brothers were Edmond de Goncourt and Jules de Goncourt, both French Naturalism writers. They jointly wrote their long Journal des Goncourt from 1851.

The Goncourt brothers never married, prided themselves on sharing a Rubens-esque blonde mistress. (Editor Galantiere raises eyebrows at this, suggests that in this case, too, Edmond was a dispassionate observer.) But that they were men of the world, not mere bourgeois scriveners, their journal amply witnesses. They were as much at home in a princess' salon as in an actress' dressing-room, describe each with equal skill.