The reputation of the two brothers increased proportionately with their
works--works of the most intense and subtle psychological research.
Installed in that apartment of the Rue Saint Georges which they so soon
transformed into a veritable museum of prints and trinkets, Edmond and
Jules de Goncourt prepared those brilliant monographs of queens and
favourites, which have made them the rare and enchanting historians of
the most licentious and factious of centuries.
[Illustration: EDMOND DE GONCOURT
In 1888.