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Quebec author dropped from Goncourt amid AI, plagiarism allegations
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The Goncourt brothers were Edmond de Goncourt (1822–1896) and Jules de Goncourt (1830–1870), both French naturalism writers who, as collaborative sibling authors, were inseparable in life.
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