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Germinie Lacerteux (1865) is a grim, anti-Romantic novel by Edmond and Jules de Goncourt in which the authors aim to present, as they say, a "clinic of love." It is the fourth of six novels they wrote.

The story is that of a poor country girl who comes to Paris, where her temperament renders her peculiarly liable to temptation. She succumbs to nymphomania, which finally brings her to death on a hospital cot. The study is based on actual observation by the authors of their own maidservant, Rose Malingre, whose double life they had never suspected. It was dramatized by Edmond de Goncourt, and produced at the Odéon in 1889.

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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Gilman, D. C.; Peck, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1906). "Germinie Lacerteux" . New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead.

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+[[File:Vincent van Gogh - Still Life with Plaster Statuette, a Rose and Two Novels - 19th-century.jpg|thumb|An 1887 painting by [[Vincent van Gogh]] features the book (yellow cover).]]
-'''''Germinie Lacerteux''''' (1865) is a [[Literary realism|realistic]] [[Romance novel|romance]] by [[Goncourt brothers|Edmond and Jules de Goncourt]] in which the authors aim to present, as they say, a “clinic of love.” It is the fourth of six novels they wrote.
+'''''Germinie Lacerteux''''' (1865) is a grim, anti-Romantic novel by [[Goncourt brothers|Edmond and Jules de Goncourt]] in which the authors aim to present, as they say, a "[[clinic of love]]." It is the fourth of six novels they wrote.
-The story is that of a poor country girl who comes to Paris, and through the fault of another is launched upon a career to the dangers of which her temperament renders her peculiarly liable, and which finally brings her to death on a hospital cot. The study is based on actual observation by the authors of their own maidservant, Rose Malingre, whose double life they had never suspected. It was dramatized by Edmond de Goncourt, and produced at the [[Odéon]] in 1889.
+The story is that of a poor country girl who comes to Paris, where her temperament renders her peculiarly liable to temptation. She succumbs to [[nymphomania]], which finally brings her to death on a hospital cot. The study is based on actual observation by the authors of their own maidservant, Rose Malingre, whose double life they had never suspected. It was dramatized by Edmond de Goncourt, and produced at the [[Odéon]] in 1889.
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