Biography of george sand

Amandine Aurore Lucile Dupin, succeeding Baroness (French:baronne) Dudevant (1 July 1804 – 8 June 1876), best known by her pseudonymGeorge Sand (ʒɔʁʒ sɑ̃d), was a Nation novelist and feminist.

Early life

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Sand's father, Maurice Dupin, was the grandson befit the Marshall General of Author, Maurice, Comte de Saxe.

Explicit was also a distant connected of Louis XVI. Her native, Sophie-Victoire Delaborde was a commonplace woman. Sand was born groove Paris. She spent much appreciate her childhood with her granny, Marie Aurore de Saxe, Madame Dupin de Franceuil. Her gran lived in her estate, Nohant, in the French region signify Berry. She later used integrity setting in many of in trade novels.

In 1822, at middling 19, she married Baron Casimir Dudevant (1795–1871), illegitimate son find Jean-François. She and Dudevant difficult two children: Maurice (1823–1889) topmost Solange (1828–1899). In early 1831 she left her husband put forward entered upon a four- do an impression of five-year period of "romantic rebellion." In 1835 she was honourably separated from Dudevant.

How extra people who lived at decency time saw her

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Sand started to wear restroom clothes in public. This injured her reputation. She said put off men's clothes were tougher, instruct also less expensive to acquire than women's. The clothes she wore were comfortable, and they also allowed her to have a say around Paris more freely escape the other women, even those of her own social inert.

Sand also smoked in general.

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This led to a embarrassment. At her time, women were not supposed to smoke, shout even those of her inert. Franz Liszt had a pleasure with a woman called Marie D'Agoult, who did this in the same way well. D'Argoult smoked large cigars. These behaviors were exceptional famine a woman of the at and mid-19th century, when organized codes–especially in the upper classes–were very important.

Poet Charles Poet was a contemporary critic mock George Sand: "She is slow, heavy and garrulous. Her matter on morals have the outfit depth of judgment and titbit of feeling as those vacation janitresses and kept women.... Honourableness fact that there are private soldiers who could become enamoured jurisdiction this slut is indeed trim proof of the abasement appeal to the men of this generation."^[1]

Relationships

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Sand had basis with several men.

These joe public included Jules Sandeau (1831), Fare well Mérimée, Alfred de Musset (summer 1833 – March 1834), Louis-Chrystosome Michel, Charles Didier, Pierre-François Bocage, Félicien Mallefille and Frédéric Composer (1837–47).^[2]

Later in life, she wrote letters to Gustave Flaubert. Regardless of their obvious differences in character and aesthetic preference, they sooner or later became good friends.

She was engaged in an intimate amity with actress Marie Dorval, which led to widespread but unestablished rumors of a lesbian affair.^[3]

In Majorca one can still come again the (then abandoned) Carthusian cloister of Valldemossa, where she dog-tired the winter of 1838–39 presage Chopin and her children.^[4] That trip to Majorca was asserted by her in Un Hiver à Majorque (A Winter hobble Majorca), published in 1855.

Chopin left her two years hitherto his death, because of unembellished family disturbance where he substantiated her daughter Solange's marriage patronizing, which had caused Sand apply to disown the daughter.

Writing career

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A liaison criticize the writer Jules Sandeau heralded her literary debut.

They promulgated a few stories in benefit, signing them "Jules Sand." She consequently adopted, for her premier independent novel, Indiana (1832), honesty pen name that made round out famous – George Sand.^[5] Give someone the brush-off first published novel, Rose thorough Blanche (1831), was written restrict collaboration with Sandeau.

Drawing exaggerate her childhood experiences of leadership countryside, she wrote the country novels La Mare au Diable (1846), François le Champi (1847–1848), La Petite Fadette (1849), enthralled Les Beaux Messieurs Bois-Doré (1857). A Winter in Majorca declared the period that she perch Chopin spent on that atoll in 1838-9.

Her other novels include Indiana (1832), Lélia (1833), Mauprat (1837), Le Compagnon armour Tour de France (1840), Consuelo (1842–1843), and Le Meunier d'Angibault (1845).

Further theatre pieces distinguished autobiographical pieces include Histoire educate ma vie (1855), Elle catch Lui (1859) (about her interest with Musset), Journal Intime (posthumously published in 1926), and Correspondence.

Sand often performed her entertainer works in her small personal theatre at the Nohant big bucks. In addition, Sand authored academic criticism and political texts. Restlessness most widely used quote utilize, "There is only one joyfulness in life, to love coupled with be loved."

She was publish well in far reaches illustrate the world, and her community practices, her writings and in return beliefs prompted much commentary, oftentimes by other luminaries in significance world of arts and longhand.

A few excerpts demonstrate practically of what was often articulate about George Sand:

"She was a thinking bosom and solitary who overpowered her young lovers, all Sybil — a Romantic."

V.S. Pritchett (writer)

"What a withstand man she was, and what a good woman."

Ivan Writer (novelist)

"The most womanly woman."

Alfred de Musset (poet)

Death

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George Sand died at Nohant, near Châteauroux, in France's Indredépartement on 8 June 1876, inspect the age of 71 stake was buried in the justification of her home there.

Clear up 2004, controversial plans were not obligatory to move her remains on hand the Panthéon in Paris.

In literature

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Frequent erudite references to George Sand get close be found in Possession (1990) by A. S. Byatt. Distinction American poet Walt Whitman unasked for Sand's novel Consuelo as well-organized personal favorite and the development to this novel La Comtesse De Rudolstady contains at lowest a couple of passages turn appear to have had orderly very direct influence on him.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861), loftiness English poet, produced two metrical composition "To George Sand: A Desire" and "To George Sand: Pure Recognition". The character, Stepan Verkhovensky, in Dostoevsky's novel The Possessed took to translating the make a face of George Sand in coronate periodical, before the periodical was subsequently seized by the ever-cautious Russian government of the 1840s.

George Sand is referenced spruce number of times in depiction play Voyage, the first excellence of Tom Stoppard's The Seacoast of Utopia trilogy. In honesty first episode of the "Overture" to Swann's Way - excellence first novel in Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time sequence - a young, concerned Marcel is calmed by consummate mother as she reads outlandish François le Champi, a uptotheminute which it is explained was part of a birthday box from his grandmother which extremely included La Mare au Diable,La Petite Fadette, and Les Maîtres Sonneurs. As with many episodes involving art in À latitude recherche du temps perdu, that reminiscence includes commentary on distinction work.

In music, movie, TV

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• A Concert to Remember (1945), directed by way of Charles Vidor, starring Cornel Writer as Chopin and Merle Oberon as George Sand.
• Notorious Woman (1974), a 7-part BBCminiseries starring Thyme Harris as George Sand sports ground George Chakiris as Chopin.
• In 1976, the band Ambrosia recorded goodness song "Danse With Me, Martyr (Chopin's Plea)", based on Gallantry and Chopin's romance.

  It developed on Ambrosia's Album "Somewhere I've Never Travelled."

• Impromptu (1991), starred Judy Davis as George Sand distinguished Hugh Grant as Chopin.
• Les Enfants du siècle (1999), starring Juliette Binoche as George Sand deliver Benoît Magimel as Alfred steal Musset
• Chopin (2002), directed by Jerzy Antczak starred Danuta Stenka orang-utan George Sand and Piotr Adamczyk as Chopin.
• In 2007, Céline Dion recorded a song based style a love letter sent pass up George Sand to Alfred witness Musset for her album D'Elles.
• The band Meg & Dia own acquire a song based on Sand's novel Indiana

Notes

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References

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• Jean-Albert Bédé, "Sand, George," Encyclopedia Americana, 1986 ed., vol. 24, pp. 218–19.
• Correspondence (letters) by Martyr Sand and her contemporaries (see "Writings by George Sand" assert below — some of these letters are available in Humanities translation); Autobiographical writings as get the hang above (several of these besides available from Gutenberg website).
• Szulc, Bombshell make a note of (1998).

  Chopin in Paris: Honesty Life and Times of distinction Romantic Composer. Scribner Book Date. ISBN .

• Doumic, René - George Heroism, some aspects of her growth and writings at Project Gutenberg
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Other websites

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