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In this work, the author treats two types of characters in parallel. Some are real, realistic official detectives, and others are detective characters as formed by the creative thought and talent of the writers.
Madame Pompadour (1878) by the Goncourt brothers follows the life of Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson, known as Madame de Pompadour (1721–1764), mistress of King Louis XV of France and one of the most influential women of the 18th century.
A fictionalized biography of the famous Dutch painter Rembrandt van Rijn. The author uses the fictional character of Dr. Joannis van Loon, Rembrandt's alleged friend and personal physician, to tell the artist's life story through his "diaries."
