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Amandine-Aurore-Lucile Dupin - later Baroness Dudevant ( July 1, 1804 - June 8, 1876) was a French novelist and early feminist (prior to the invention of the word), writing under the pseudonym of George Sand.
She was born in Paris. In 1822, she married Baron Casimir Dudevant, and they had two children, Maurice (b. 1823) and Solange (b. 1828). In 1835 she parted from her husband.
Her first novel, "Rose Et Blanche" ( 1831Events February- March Revolts in Modena, Parma and the Papal States are put down by Austrian troops February 20 Battle of Grochow. Polish rebel forces divide a Russian army. March 1 Democrat Samuel Smith becomes President Pro Tempore of the United States) was written in collaboration with Jules SandeauLeonard Sylvain Julien (Jules) Sandeau ( February 19, 1811 April 24, 1883), was a French novelist. He was born at Aubusson (Creuse), and was sent to Paris to study law, but spent much of his time in unruly behaviour with other students. He met George Sand, from whom she took her pen-name.
After parting from her husband she made less and less a secret of preferring men's clothes to women's. At first she would still dress up as a woman for social occasions, but left that habit more and more aside. This was very exceptional for the 19th centuryAlternative meaning: Nineteenth Century (periodical ( 18th century — 19th century — 20th century — more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 19th century was that century which lasted from 1801- 1900. Events The Little Ice Age ended, where social codes - especially in the higher classes - were of the highest importance. She was probably one of the first every-day transvestites. As a social consequence she lost as good as all privileges attached to being a Baroness (while it was also a part of the moresThe term mores (pronounced mor-ayz) as used in Sociology is a plural noun. The Latin singular, which is not used in English, is mos''. The English word morality comes from the same root, as does the noun moral which can mean the 'core meaning of a story'. of these days that women of higher classes could live physically separated from their husbands without losing any privilege, if, and only if, not showing any irregularity to the outer world). 250px George Sand, portrayed by Eugène DelacroixNadar) Ferdinand Victor Eugene Delacroix ( April 26, 1798 August 13, 1863) was an important painter from the French romantic period. Delacroix was born at Saint-Maurice-en-Chalencon, Ardeche, in the Rhone-Alpes Region of France. He was trained by Jacques- She was linked romantically with Alfred de MussetAlfred Louis Charles de Musset ( November 11, 1810 May 2, 1857) was a French dramatist, poet, and novelist. De Musset was an important figure in the Romantic literary movement. He trained in both law and medicine, but his success was in literature. The ta (summer 1833 - March 1834), Franz Liszt and Frédéric Chopin ( 1810- 1849) whom she had met in Paris in 1831.
At Mallorca one can still visit the (then abandoned) carthusian monastery of Valldemossa, where she spent the winter 1838-1839 with Frédéric Chopin and her children, see: http://www.valldemossa.com/museoin.htm
She left Chopin shortly before he died from tuberculosis.
Her successful novels: "Indiana" ( 1832), "Lélia" ( 1833), "Mauprat" ( 1837), "Le Compagnon du Tour de France" ( 1840), "Consuelo" ( 1842 - 1843), "Le Meunier d'Angibault" ( 1845).
Drawing from her childhood experiences of the countryside, she wrote the rural novels "La Mare du Diable" ( 1846), "François le Champi" ( 1847 - 1848), "La Petite Fadette" ( 1849), "Les Beaux Messieurs Bois-Dore".
Her theatre pieces and autobiographical pieces, "Histoire de ma vie" ( 1855), "Elle et Lui" ( 1859) (about her affair with Musset), "Journal Intime" (posth. 1926), "Correspondance".
She was interred in the Cimetière du Montparnasse, Paris, France.
George Sand died at Nohant, near Chateauroux, in the Indre département of France on June 8, 1876 at the age of 72 and was buried in the grounds of her home at Nohant. In 2004, controversial plans were suggested to move her remains to the Pantheon in Paris.
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