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Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin de Francueil, best known by her pen name George Sand, was a French novelist, memoirist and journalist. Being more renowned than either Victor Hugo or Honoré de Balzac in Britain in the 1830s and 1840s, Sand is recognised as one of the most notable writers of the European Romantic era. She has more than 50 volumes of various works to her credit, including tales, plays a…

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culture · French novelist and memoirist (1804–1876) · writer · journalist · salonnière · playwright · novelist · diarist · women's rights activist · librettist · composer · author · also George Sand, Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin, Amandine Lucile Aurore Dupin, Baroness Dudevant, Jules Sand, Lucie Dudevant

Born 1 July 1804 · Died 8 June 1876 · Q3816

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The specter of this kind of male judgment, along with the misnaming and thwarting of her needs by a culture controlled by males, has created problems for the woman writer: problems of contact with herself, problems of language and style, problems of energy and survival. Adrienne Rich, “When We Dead Awaken: Writing as Re-Vision
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A Few Words about George Sand
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2026· 1 entry

Jan 1, 2026Documented record76% confidence

Released album “Sand Chopin”.

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2021· 1 entry

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(with Katarzyna Herman and Marek Kossakowski)

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Plans that her remains be moved to the Panthéon in Paris resulted in controversy

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1999· 1 entry

Nov 19, 1999Documented record76% confidence

Released album “George Sand et Frédéric Chopin: Feu Sacré”.

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1972· 1 entry

Jan 1, 1972Documented record75% confidence

“The specter of this kind of male judgment, along with the misnaming and thwarting of her needs by a culture controlled by males, has created problems for the woman writer: problems of contact with herself, problems of language and style, problems of energy and survival. Adrienne Rich, “When We Dead Awaken: Writing as Re-Vision”

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1963· 1 entry

1963Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

(with Antonina Gordon-Górecka as Sand and Gustaw Holoubek as Chopin), in 1972 (with Halina Mikołajska and Leszek Herdegen), in 1980 (with Anna Polony and Michał Pawlicki), in 1999 (with Joanna Szczepkowska, who portrayed

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1880· 1 entry

1880Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

Her children sold the rights to her literary estate for 125,000 Francs (equivalent to 36 kg of gold, or 1

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1876· 8 entries

Jun 8, 1876Documented record86% confidence

Died 1876-06-08.

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Jan 1, 1876Documented record75% confidence

“A Few Words about George Sand”

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“O amor passa, a amizade volta, mesmo depois de ter dormido um certo tempo.”

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“Cada qual tem os defeitos de suas virtudes.”

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“Nous ne pouvons arracher une seule page de notre vie, mais nous pouvons jeter le livre au feu.”

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“La vie est une longue blessure qui s'endort rarement et ne se guérit jamais.”

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“Apprendre à voir, voilà tout le secret des études naturelles.”

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c. 1876Exact date was not recorded in the sourceDirect quote66% confidence

“Opis: słowa wypowiedziane o George Sand na krótko przed swoją śmiercią.”

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1864· 1 entry

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Sand took residence in Palaiseau together with her beloved Manceau for a couple of months, where she tended him in his decline

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1848· 1 entry

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Returned to Paris from a tour of the United Kingdom, to die at the Place Vendôme in 1849

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1844· 1 entry

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Only to learn that it had already been published in Russian

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1840· 1 entry

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Dorval played the lead in a play written by Sand, titled Cosima, and the two women collaborated on the script

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1836· 1 entry

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“Opis: po pierwszym spotkaniu z George Sand na wieczorze towarzyskim u hrabiny Marii d’Agoult 24 października 1836.”

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1835· 1 entry

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Was legally separated from Dudevant and took custody of their children

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1832· 1 entry

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And Gómez de Avellaneda's anti-slavery novel Sab, published in 1841

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1831· 2 entries

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Justifying her clothing as being less expensive and far more robust than the typical dress of a noblewoman at the time

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1831Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

At the age of 27, she chose her pseudonym George Sand

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1825· 1 entry

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Had an intense but perhaps platonic affair with the young lawyer Aurélien de Sèze

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1822· 1 entry

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At the age of eighteen, Sand married (François) Casimir Dudevant, an out-of-wedlock son of Baron Jean-François Dudevant

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1821· 1 entry

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When her grandmother died, and used the setting in many of her novels

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1804· 1 entry

Jul 1, 1804Documented record86% confidence

Born 1804-07-01.

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1800· 1 entry

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The police chief of Paris issued an order requiring women to apply for a “transvestite pass” in order to wear male clothing

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