![]() I am so used to seeing him lost in the clouds that it doesn’t seem to me as if life or death means anything to him. “ When he was sick unto death in Majorca, he composed music imbued with the very fragrance of Paradise. Toward the end, she resented the encumbrance and freely admitted to several dalliances. ![]() Although their breakup was harsh and long in coming, Sand tended to him while together as she would any child. That bond kept them together well beyond Chopin’s “usefulness” as a satisfying companion due to his debilitating tuberculosis. They shared a passion for the arts-he for the piano and she for literature-although their discussions traveled far and wide. Married only once, she took many lovers, including Frederic Chopin, with whom she had a nine-year affair. Along with novels, she wrote urging reforms to better the lives of the poor and working class, gain suffrage for men and women, and capture equal rights for women.Įarly in her life, she inherited her grandmother’s estate, Nohant, in Central France. She relentlessly pursued of her wants: writing, lovers, and family. Born into a world where only men could be writers, she often imitated them in dress and manner by wearing pants and smoking cigars. George Sand died at Nohant, near Châteauroux on 8 June 1876 and was buried in the grounds of her home there.George Sand (née Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin) (1804-1876) shone brightly as one of very few 19th century female authors. Among her later works is her autobiography, 'Histoire de ma vie' (1854–55). The writer subsequently produced a series of novels and plays of impeccable morality and conservatism. Her rustic tales are considered to be some of her finest works. It was around this time, against the backdrop of the Révolution de Février, that Sand established her own newspaper, published by a workers' co-operative. In 'La Mare au diable' (1846), 'François le Champi' (1848) and 'La Petite Fadette' (1849), Sand returned to the familiar setting of the Berry countryside in which she had grown up. ![]() Her most widely used quote is, 'There is only one happiness in life - to love and be loved'.Įventually, Sand found her calling in a variety of rustic novels, which drew their chief inspiration from her lifelong love of the countryside and sympathy for the poor. The number of lovers she took grew to include, Prosper Mérimée, Alfred de Musset, and Frédéric Chopin. The majority of Sand's early works, including 'Mauprat' (1837), 'Spiridion' (1839), and 'Les sept Cordes de la lyre' (1840), evidence the influence of the men in her life. A passionate protest against the social conventions that bind a wife to her husband, 'Indiana' brought Sand immediate fame. In 1832 she adopted a new pseudonym, George Sand, for 'Indiana', a novel which Sandeau had no involvement. Once in Paris, Sand found a good friend in Henri de Latouche (1785-1851), director of 'Le Figaro', who accepted some of the articles she wrote with Jules Sandeau (1811-1883) under the pseudonym, Jules Sand. The couple were legally separated four years later. In January 1831 she left Dudevant and moved to Paris. The first years of their marriage were happy enough until Sand began an affair with a young magistrate before embarking on a passionate liaison with a neighbour. In 1822 Sand married Baron Casimir Dudevant (1795-1871). ![]() She was brought up by her grandmother at Nohant, near La Châtre in Berry. Sand was the daughter of Maurice Dupin (1778-1808) and Sophie-Victoire Delaborde. Contemporary portraits of Sand by Alcide Joseph Lorentz (1813-1858) and Maurice Sand (1823-1889) also depict the novelist wearing gentlemen's attire (the former held at Musée de la Ville de Paris and Musée Carnavalet the latter held at Musée de la Vie Romantique). ![]()
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