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François Casimir Dudevant (6 July 1795 – 8 March 1871) was the illegitimate son of Baron Jean-François Dudevant (1754–1826), a French military officer, and his mistress Augustine Soulé. [3] On 10 December 1822, Dudevant married Aurore Dupin, who became well known as an author using the name George Sand .
Aurore Dupin Dudevant, also known as George Sand, was a descendant of a king of Poland on her father's side and of a Parisian bird-seller on her mother's. Her critics vilified her as a loose woman, a political radical, and a "lioness" who devoured her numerous lovers.
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Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin de Francueil [1] ( French: [amɑ̃tin lysil oʁɔʁ dypɛ̃]; 1 July 1804 – 8 June 1876), best known by her pen name George Sand ( French: [ʒɔʁʒ sɑ̃d] ), was a French novelist, memoirist and journalist. [2] [3] One of the most popular writers in Europe in her lifetime, [4] being more renowned than either ...
- Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin, 1 July 1804, Paris, France
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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 ...
Apr 5, 2024 · George Sand (born July 1, 1804, Paris, France—died June 8, 1876, Nohant) was a French Romantic writer known primarily for her so-called rustic novels. She was brought up at Nohant, near La Châtre in Berry, the country home of her grandmother. There she gained the profound love and understanding of the countryside that were to inform most of ...
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Mar 4, 2013 · In 1831, Aurore Dupin Dudevant (George Sand) left her husband Casimir Dudevant and country estate Nohant (inherited from her paternal grandmother) to live and write in Paris, taking Solange with her. Aurore Dudevant adopted the pen name George Sand with the publication of her first single-authored novel, Indiana, in 1832. The trial for legal ...
Jun 8, 2018 · When her grandmother died, Aurore became mistress of the estate at Nohant. At 19 she married Casimir Dudevant, the son of a baron and a servant girl. He was goodhearted but coarse and sensual, and he offended her lofty and mystical ideal of love. Aurore soon began to seek her idealized love object elsewhere.