Germinie Lacerteux

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An 1887 painting by Vincent van Gogh features the book (yellow cover).

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

Odéon
in 1889.

References

  • This article incorporates text from a publication now in the
    New International Encyclopedia
    (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead.