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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.
In her “Story of My Life,” Sand’s fascinating if unreliable memoir, there’s a famous confrontation between 13-year-old Aurore and the aristocratic grandmother who adopted her and paid the...
Jun 8, 2015 · Love, Forgiveness, the Pride of the Protest, and What Makes a Compelling Heroine: Dostoyevsky’s Beautiful Eulogy for George Sand. By Maria Popova. 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 ...
Mar 9, 2018 · Sand lived a long life, but she remained committed to the religious principles that she adopted in the 1830s. In her letters to Gustave Flaubert towards the end of her life she fought back against her friend’s pessimism, affirming her belief in a God who oversaw progress towards a better future.
Sep 4, 2000 · Born Aurore Dupin in 1804, Sand was intimately acquainted with class conflict: She was the daughter of an aristocrat and a prostitute. Her dashing father died in a riding accident when Aurore was...
May 31, 1973 · George Sand's first fictional creation as a child was the famous "Corambé," who was "as pure and charitable as Christ, as radiant and beautiful as Gabriel," and as personal as a pagan god.
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The scenery and characteristics of that region are familiar to all readers of the works of George Sand; a quiet region of narrow, winding, shady lanes, where you may wander long between the tall hedges without meeting a living creature but the wild birds that start from the honeysuckle and hawthorn, and the frogs croaking among the sedges; a ...
