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Jun 8, 2015 · George Sand was one of the most brilliant, stern and just representatives of that category of the contemporaneous Western new men who, when they appeared, started with a direct negation of those “positive” acquisitions which brought to a close the activities of the bloody French — more correctly, European — revolution of the end of the ...
Jan 22, 2024 · There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved. In her famous quote, "There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved," George Sand encapsulates the essence of what many consider to be the ultimate source of fulfillment and contentment. At its core, the quote proclaims that love, both the act of loving and being ...
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Mar 9, 2018 · George Sand (1804-1876) is known to modern readers as a symbol of feminism, a woman who challenged patriarchal values through her writings and her life. Sand left her husband, took multiple lovers, dressed like a man, smoked cigarettes, and wrote novels, essays, and plays in which she defined herself apart from the social conventions that ...
Mar 31, 2022 · 5.1 Premise. George Sand is essentially our contemporary. This no audacious statement. It is simply a matter of recognising the genius of an anticipator, opening up a sense of closeness, of reassuring commonality, leading, perhaps beyond the commonplace and beyond the legends regarding a woman remembered because her ‘clothes’ gave rise to ...
- Milena Gammaitoni
Oct 1, 2008 · George Sand was the most famous—and most scandalous—woman in nineteenth-century France. As a writer, she was enormously prolific—she wrote more than ninety novels, thirty-five plays, and thousands of pages of autobiography. She inspired writers as diverse as Flaubert and Proust but is often remembered for her love affairs with such figures as Musset and Chopin. Her affair with ...
- Elizabeth Harlan
- October 01, 2008
the partner who owns the narrative. In Sand's retrospective view of herself, unruly sex disappears offstage. By the time she tells her story, the private Aurore Dupin Dudevant had become the public figure George Sand. Beloved in old age as "the Good Lady of Nohant," she had begun to sanitize the past; episodes of passionate abandon, fol
George Sand recognized that she had two mothers: her own mother, a Parisian "fille du peuple," the daughter of a bird-peddler, once a tavern-keeper; a milliner and seamstress, she did not live by her trade and had married Sanďs father, a brilliant junior officer, after having lived with wealthier protectors. It was a somewhat tardy "garrison ...
