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Solange Dudevant (13 September 1828 – 17 March 1899) was a French writer and novelist and the daughter of George Sand. Biography. Solange Dudevant was born to author George Sand at Nohant on 13 September 1828. She was Sand's second child.
- Writer
- 13 September 1828, Nohant-Vic, France
- Cemetery at Nohant
- 17 March 1899 (aged 70), Nohant-Vic, France
- Unsure Beginnings
- Honeymoon Gone Wrong
- Back to France
- Things Take A Turn For The Worse
- Conclusion
Before I jump into the story of Sand and Chopin I want to give a bit of background on both of them. George Sand was a talented French writer.She originally began to go by the name of George so that her writing would be taken seriously. She was also known for going so far as to act like a man: she conducted open affairs although she was still techni...
Against all odds, by 1838, the two had begun to engage in a romantic relationship. Opposites attract, after all! At the beginning of their affair, legendary French painter Eugène Delacroix, a close friend of their’s, completed a painting of the two. The painting would remain in Delacroix’s possession until his death when it was discovered and cut i...
Between the weather, lack of accommodation, and virtually non-existent hospitality, Sand and Chopin decided to make their way back to France. After a stop in Barcelona, the couple found themselves in Marseilles in the South of France. Here, Chopin recovered for a few months before going to Sand’s countryside residence in the town of Nohant. For the...
You could say that things between Chopin and Sand took a turn for the worse when Sand based a character on Chopin. In her novel, Lucrezia Floriani, Sand modeled a character named Karol, an Eastern European (a nod to Chopin’s Polish origins) prince who is ill and being cared for by the main character of the book, Lucrezia. Many took the fictional co...
Alas, like so many historical love affairs, the story between Chopin and Sand ended in tragedy. I always wonder if George Sand ever regretted how things turned out between herself and Chopin. Was she so bitter over his apparent betrayal (choosing Solange over her) that she refused to go to his funeral? Or, was she so devastated by his death that sh...
Mar 4, 2013 · Sand considered this lifestyle morally corrupt, and when Solange took a series of lovers/protectors to support herself, Sand excoriated her daughter, viewing her as no better than a prostitute and refused Solange access to Nohant.
- Katharine Ann Jensen
- 2013
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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. But how much of this story is real, and how much of it is just mythologizing?
Apr 20, 2003 · Sand had two actual children, Maurice and Solange, in residence, complicating matters. In the end, jealousies that grew out of the little dysfunctional family they formed split Sand and...
Introduction. Family, loves, friends, patronesses and pupils. The diverse nature of Chopin’s relationships with women arose from his situation as a composer-pianist and the prestige inherent in...
Solange Clésinger-Sand. sand's ambivalence toward her daughter began even before she was born. Indeed, Solange's birth was conditioned very differently from Maurice's, memorialized by Sand as “the most beautiful moment of my life.” At his birth, she proudly tied the umbilical knot with a piece of green silk.
