George Sand

Person
Spouse (or domestic partner)
Casimir Dudevant (1835, 1822, Marriage)
Children
Maurice Sand
Profession
Novelist
Writer
Quotations
Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.
Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we must cling as to a treasure, and not squander on our way through life in the small coin of empty words, or in exact and priggish argument.
I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a li
Places lived
Paris
Centre
Date of birth
1804-07-01
Place of birth
Paris
Country of nationality
France
Religion
Roman Catholicism
Gender
Female
 
 

Quotation Subject
Quotations About This Subject
She was a thinking bosom and one who overpowered her young lovers, all Sybil — a Romantic.
The most womanly woman.
What a brave man she was, and what a good woman.
 
 

KWTopic
KWType
Person
Assessment
Sand was acclaimed as a writer during her lifetime but her literary reputation has not lasted. She is better known for her many love affairs, particularly that with Chopin, as well as for her attempts to improve women's social position.
Category
literature
Disciplines
writer
Connections from
george sand a fan was honore de balzac (Honoré de Balzac)
george sand an affair with prosper merimee (Prosper Mérimée)
george sand an affair with alfred de musset (Alfred de Musset)
Connections to
elizabeth barrett browning dedicated work to george sand (Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
alfred de musset affair with george sand (Alfred de Musset)
honore de balzac stayed with george sand (Honoré de Balzac)
Has sentences
In 1822, Sand met and married Casimir Dudevant. (Details)
They went to live at Nohant, which she had inherited. (Details)
A son, named Maurice after her father, was born the following year. (Details)
 
 

Person sign
Star Sign
Cancer
 
 

Context name
Official name
Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin
 
 

Person Or Being In Fiction
Representations In Fiction
George Sand
 
 

Influence Node
Influenced By
Adam Mickiewicz
Influenced
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Jules Verne
Peers
Frédéric Chopin
Gustave Flaubert
 
 

Celebrity
Romantic relationships (with celebrities)
Jules Sandeau (1831, Paramour)
Alfred de Musset (1833, 1834, Paramour)
Frédéric Chopin (1837, 1847, Paramour)
 
 

Literature Subject
Works Written About This Topic
Flaubert-Sand: The Correspondence
 
 

Art Subject
Artwork on the Subject
George Sand
Art Series on the Subject
Portrait of Frédéric Chopin and George Sand
 
 

Film subject
Films On This Subject
Chopin: Desire for Love
Impromptu
 
 

Deceased Person
Date of death
1876-06-08
Place of death
Nohant-Vic
 
 

Author
Works written
1835, Pensées littéraires
Adriani
Afterglow: A Last Conversation With Pauline Kael
Book editions published
Consuelo
Consuelo
Consuelo
 
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