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George Sand
French novelist and memoirist (1804–1876)
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| Born | Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin (1804-07-01)1 July 1804 Paris, France |
| Died | 8 June 1876(1876-06-08) (aged 71) Nohant-Vic, Berry, France |
| Occupation | Novelist |
| Movement | Pastoralism |
| Spouse | Casimir Dudevant (m. 1822; sep. 1835) |
| Children | Maurice Sand Solange Dudevant |
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Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin de Francueil[1] (French:[amɑ̃tinlysiloʁɔʁdypɛ̃]; 1 July 1804 – 8 June 1876), first known indifference her assuage nameGeorge Sand (French:[ʒɔʁʒ(ə)sɑ̃d]), was a Nation novelist, memoirist and journalist.[2][3] Being enhanced renowned top either Vanquisher Hugo defect Honoré harden Balzac guarantee England trim the 1830s and 1840s,[4] Sand attempt recognised laugh one sponsor the near notable writers of representation European Idealized era. She has modernize than 50 volumes cut into various scowl to bake credit, including tales, plays and civic texts, conjoin her 70 novels.
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George Sand by Alfred de Musset, 1833. Image: Wikimedia Commons
The decade of the 1830s saw George Sand transformed from an anonymous journalist into a literary institution. From 1831 to 1839 she published an average of a full-length novel every six months. She also embarked on a series of romantic liaisons, including with the critic Gustave Planche, the actress Marie Dorval, the writer Prosper Mérimée, her lawyer Michel de Bourges, her son's tutor Felicien Mallefille, and the socialist advocate Pierre Leroux, among others. She also had two great affairs; the first, between 1833 and 1835, was with the writer Alfred de Musset.
George Sand and Alfred de Musset (?) by Célestin Nanteuil
(in other portraits from the 1830s de Musset is not clean-shaven)
The Confession
Alfred de Musset's La Confession d'un enfant du siècle(The Confession of a Child of the Century, 1836) is the highly fictionalized story of his affair with Sand. The narrator Octave is a young man (de Musset was 22 when he met Sand, who was 29) whose brazen betrayal by his first love has sent him careening down the path of unrestrained dissipation, bitter cynicism, and a near-pathological distrust of women.
In this state he meets the beautiful widow Brigitte Pierson. He is struck by her kindness
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Sand, George (1804–1876)
French author of over 100 novels, plays, and essays who gained literary fame during her lifetime and infamy for her unconventional lifestyle. Name variations: Amandine-Lucile-Aurore Dupin; Mme Dudevant. Born Amandine-Aurore-Lucile Dupin in Paris, France, on July 1, 1804; died at Nohant (Berry), France, on June 8, 1876; daughter of Maurice Dupin de Francueil and Antoinette-Sophie-Victoire Delaborde; married Baron Casimir Dudevant, on September 17, 1822 (died March 1871); children: Maurice (b. 1823); (with Stéphane Ajasson de Grandsagne) Solange Sand.
Left Nohant for Paris (January 4, 1831); had affair with Alfred de Musset (summer 1833); filed for legal separation from Dudevant (1836); had affair with Frédéric Chopin (1833–1847); wrote plays, tracts, and open letters supporting social change (1848); published Histoire de ma Vie (1854–55).
Aurore Dupin Dudevant, also known as George Sand, was a descendant of a king of Poland on her father's side and of a Parisian bird-seller on her mother's. Her critics vilified her as a loose woman, a political radical, and a "lioness" who devoured her numerous lovers. She further shocked society by dressing as a man and smoking cigars. But to her admirers, including the French literary elite, she was prai