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by Emily E. Hogstad November 15th, 2023. It’s one of the most romanticized love affairs in music history: dashing cross-dressing woman novelist George Sand becomes obsessed with, and then seduces, the sickly consumptive pianist-composer Frédéric Chopin.
Aug 1, 2019 · The lovers’ Mallorcan tryst was bittersweet. Chopin’s letters praised the natural beauty, calm and “poetic feeling” of the island. He took pleasure in the “African sun”, the blue sea ...
- Natalia Nowakowska
- Growing Up as Aurore
- Becoming George Sand
- Affairs and More Affairs
- Pastoral Novels
- The Winter with Chopin
- The Paris Commune
- Braking Society Conventions
Always known simply as Aurore, she was born in Paris, but raised for much of her childhood by her grandmother, Marie-Aurore de Saxe, Madame Dupin de Francueil, at her grandmother‘s estate, Nohant, in the French province of Berry. There she gained the profound love and understanding of the countryside that were to inform most of her works. In 1817 a...
In 1822, George Sand married Casimir Dudevant, illegitimate son of Baron Jean-François Dudevant, with whom she had two children. In early 1831, she left her husband and entered upon a four- or five-year period of romantic rebellion, before she was rightfully divorced in 1835. For her first independently written novel, Indiana (1832), she adopted th...
Sand conducted affairs of varying duration with Jules Sandeau (1831), Prosper Mérimée, Alfred de Musset (summer 1833 – March 1835), Louis-Chrysostome Michel, Pierre-François Bocage, Félicien Mallefille, Louis Blanc, and Frédéric Chopin (1837–1847). Later in life, she became close friend with Gustave Flaubert despite their obvious differences in tem...
Drawing from her childhood experiences of the countryside, Sand wrote several pastoral novels. Every night from midnight until dawn, George Sand covered her daily quota of twenty pages with her large, tranquil writing, never crossing out a line. All her novels are love stories in which her romantic idealism unfolds in a realistic setting: love tran...
In Majorca one can still visit the former Carthusian monastery of Valldemossa, where she spent the winter of 1838–1839 with Chopin and her children, which she later published in her Un hiver à Majorque (A Winter in Majorca, 1841). Chopin was already ill with incipient tuberculosis at the beginning of their relationship, and spending a winter in Maj...
Sand was also known for her implication and writings during the Paris Commune, where she took a position for the Versailles assembly against the communards, urging them to take violent action against the rebels. In addition, Sand authored literary criticism and political texts. She wrote many essays and published works establishing her socialist po...
George Sand is also renown for breaking the society conventions of her age, by wearing men‘s clothing in public, which she justified by the clothes being far sturdier and less expensive than the typical dress of a noblewoman at the time. In addition to being comfortable, Sand‘s male dress enabled her to circulate more freely in Paris than most of h...
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Nov 27, 2020 · In one, Chopin described rumours of his affairs with women as a “cloak for hidden feelings”. Chopin’s most studied love affair to date was with the French novelist George Sand – real name Aurore Dupin Dudevant – who changed her moniker in order to be taken seriously in 19th-century, male-dominated literary circles.
- Maddy Shaw Roberts
Jan 24, 2024 · The last time Chopin and Sand met by chance - a year and a half before the composer's death. Although he did not engage in conversation with his former lover, he maintained warm relations with her daughter until the end of his life. On his deathbed, he said, "She promised that I would die in her arms."
The novel was written at a time when growing tension between Frédéric Chopin and the Sand children had started to boil over. Sand was unable to remain neutral and wrote to a friend “I quite lost my temper, which gave me the courage to tell him a few home truths, and to threaten to get sick of him.”. Illustration of Lucrezia Floriani.
After the first few months of their love affair in Paris, George Sand and Chopin decided to go on a trip to Mallorca in October 1838. They spent the summer together away from prying eyes and made frequent visits to the painter Delacroix's studio. George Sand (1838) by Auguste Charpentier Museum Celda de Frédéric Chopin y George Sand.
