Part Six
The Goncourt, the Renaudot, the Femina, and the Académie française — who gives them, where, and what they have done to the books that won.
The Prix Goncourt is awarded by ten members of the Académie Goncourt at a lunch in the private rooms of the restaurant Drouant, place Gaillon, Paris — a ritual that has held, with wartime interruptions, since Edmond de Goncourt's will funded it.
Prizes
The institution Richelieu built to fix the language
Prizes
The Prix Femina was created in 1904, one year after the first Goncourt, by a jury of women writers reacting to the exclusively male Académie Goncourt.
Prizes
The Prix Renaudot — founded in 1926, named after the seventeenth-century journalist Théophraste Renaudot — is deliberated by its jury in the Drouant building on the same day as the Goncourt and announced an hour after it.
Prizes