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  1. Jun 8, 2015 · On June 8, 1876, the great French novelist, memoirist, and playwright Amantine-Lucile-Aurore Dupin, better known as George Sand, took her last breath five weeks before her seventy-second birthday. Over the course of her long and prolific career, she had touched millions of readers and influenced generations of writers.

  2. Sand’s precocious sense of self predated the rebirth of the bored, unhappy wife and mother Aurore Dupin, Baroness Dudevant, age 26, as “George Sand.”

  3. Jun 18, 2024 · Sand herself was a prominent figure in the 1848 Revolution, as the graphic novel makes clear. Her friends were often leading social and political actors; indeed, some, like Victor Hugo, consequently found themselves exiled.

  4. Mar 9, 2018 · Sand’s unconventional religious journey began when she was a child raised by a Voltairean grandmother on an isolated estate in central France. It was there, she recalled in her autobiography, that lacking a religion she “made one for myself.”.

  5. Feb 13, 2024 · George Sand found her room both literally and metaphorically when she escaped her suffocating marriage. I n 1831, after negotiating a separation, relinquishing her estate and children to her husband, she went to Paris to live in a small flat with her lover, Jules Sandau.

  6. Examine the life, times, and work of George Sand through detailed author biographies on eNotes.

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  8. what exactly did Sand mean by love? Nothing that involved discretion or generally civilized behavior: "She would always demand authenticity (or drama) in her relationships, at least when she was the transgressor." This ideal of "authenticity" brands Sand as a disciple of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, but as with Rousseau himself the more skeptical reader