George sand

I am sort of obsessed with French author George Sand. This started off when a good friend sat me down to watch Impromptu (1991), which, weirdly enough, I hadn’t watched until 20-some-odd year…

"J’adore les roses, .. ce sont des beautés champêtres délicieuses dont nous avons su faire des princesses incomparables..."

George Sand, pseudónimo de Amantine (en ocasiones se deletrea Amandine) Aurore Lucile Dupin de Dudevant (París, 1 de julio de 1804-Nohant, 8 de junio de 1876), fue una destacada escritora, periodista y revolucionaria francesa.

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Elle était l’un des écrivains les plus influents du 19 ème siècle. Féministe, avant-gardiste, libre, celle qui adopta un nom d’homme pour s’émanciper a marqué Paris de bien des façons. Nous sommes le 1er juillet 1804, la petite Amantine Aurore Lucile Dupin vient de naître au 15 rue Meslay (devenu [...]

Majorca is a fine island off the Mediterranean coast of Spain. Valldemossa, only 16 ks from the island's capital city of Palma, has retained its small, picturesque village character. So it was somewhat surprising to see bus-loads of tourists in Valldemossa, visitors who flock mostly to visit the monastery complex where Frederick Chopin and Amandine Dupin aka George Sand stayed in the winter of 1838-9. The Polish composer arrived on the island already exhausted and in poor health due to TB…

Why did writer George Sand (Aurore Dudevant) dress in male attire? When researching Sand's letters, Arts in Letters learned that by wearing men's clothes, this feminist in trousers was actually committing an act of protest, challenging not only societal norms but also Parisian law. In Paris in 1800 a law was passed prohibiting women from