Ralph Brooker<p>Article (GillesHeuré) about the controversial award of the 1919 <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/PrixGoncourt" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>PrixGoncourt</span></a> to <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Proust" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Proust</span></a>, « A L’ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs », published by then <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/NRF" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>NRF</span></a>), rather than to <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/anciencombattant" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>anciencombattant</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Dorgel%C3%A8s" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Dorgelès</span></a>, « Les Croix de bois ». The award broke with a wartime tradition seeing the prize going to <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/soldiers" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>soldiers</span></a> (R. Benjamin, <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Barbusse" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Barbusse</span></a>, <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Malherbe" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Malherbe</span></a>, <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Duhamel" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Duhamel</span></a>) and was seen as a trumping of the worker class by the effete <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/bourgeoisie" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>bourgeoisie</span></a>, the <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/salon" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>salon</span></a> class. Revenge for not winning in 1913, <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/SwannsWay" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SwannsWay</span></a> (brilliant).</p>