Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization.
-- Edmond de Goncourt
   
Edmond de Goncourt   Name:
Edmond de Goncourt
Type:
Writer
Nationality:
French
Birth:
May 26, 1822
Death:
July 16, 1896
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