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Sand had an active participation in the revolution of 1848.ĭuring her late years she wrote simple tales, in the manner of fairy tale stories as Contes d’une Grand-Mère (1873) with stories she wrote to her grandchildren.

She wrote more than 70 titles (including novels, short stories, plays and other texts) with a political character. She dreamed of a world in which the fraternal love could unite the different social classes. In her books she expressed her concern for the social problems of her time as we can see in Consuelo (1842-43) and in Le Compagnon du Tour de France (1840). And during her lifetimeįound inspiration in some of her childhood experiences to write La Mare au Diable (1846), La Petite Fadette (1849) or Les Beaux Messieurs de Bois-Doré (1857).įirst published in 1841, she described the period she spent with Frédéric Chopin Literary Careerīeginning of her career, her works were in high demand. Sand die on 8 June 1876 at Nohant-Vic and was buried at the private graveyard behind the chapel of the commune. George Sand and Frédéric Chopin by Eugène Delacroix, 1837. But the most important of all was the relationship she ad with the composer Frédéric Chopin. During her life, Sand had many romantic affairs with writers, artists and intellectuals. In 1835 she was legally divorced from Dudevant and took the custody of their children. In 1831 she entered in a period, called by many as of “romantic rebellion”, it lasts four/five years and started just after she left her husband. In 1825 she had an intense affair, but probably platonic, with a young lawyer. When she was only eighteen, she married Casimir Dudevant, the illegitimate son of a baron and they had two children. Were not bothered by her rebellious conduct. Many people until they read her books and be shocked by the subversive tone of Inspired many critics of her contemporaries, it was generally well accepted by That time it was a habit socially not accepted in women. That she smoked tobacco in public was considered scandalous as well since by Places that were forbidden for women, even to those of her social status. Male clothing, Sand could walk more freely in Paris, also she had access to

Sand was one of the women who did not apply for the permit and did wear sport men’s clothing, which she explained by saying that the clothes were less expensive and far sturdier than the typical dress of a noblewoman of her time. George Sand by Auguste Charpentier, 1835 – Musée de la vie romantique. They did it for practical reasons and also to subvert dominant stereotypes. Some women applied for health or occupational reasons, however many women decided to wear pants and other traditional male attire in public without the permit. In 1880 the police issued an order requiring women to apply for a permit in order to wear male clothing. George Sand was born in Paris and spent much of her childhood with her grandmother, Madame Dupin de Francueil, at her grandmother’s house in Nohant-Vic (located in the French region Centre-Val de Loire), where later she sets many of her novels. Life resembles a novel more often than novels resemble life.” – George Sand Life She was one of the most popular writers of her time, even more popular than Victor Hugo and Honoré de Balzac in England in 1830s and 1840s, being until today recognised as one of the most notable writers of the Romantic Literature in Europe. Geroge Sand was the nom de plume (her literary pseudonym) of Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin, a French novelist and memoirist.