page_title: George Sand
section_title: Notable relationships
hierarchical_section_title: George Sand / Personal life / Notable relationships
caption_attribution_description: George Sand &#160;(1804&#8211;1876)&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;Alternative names Amantine Aurore Lucile DupinDescriptionFrench writer, journalist, salonnière, playwright, novelist and composerDate of birth/death 1 July 1804 8 June 1876Location of birth/death Paris Nohant-VicAuthority control : Q3816 VIAF:&#8201;46766944 ISNI:&#8201;0000 0001 2130 9531 ULAN:&#8201;500054039 LCCN:&#8201;n78081235 NLA:&#8201;35474179 WorldCat creator QS:P170,Q3816 La romancière George Sand est photographiée par Nadar qui réalise une série de clichés de l'écrivain, au mois de mars 1864.
context_page_description: Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin, best known by her pen name George Sand, was a French novelist, memoirist, and Socialist. One of the more popular writers in Europe in her lifetime, being more renowned than both Victor Hugo and Honoré de Balzac in England in the 1830s and 1840s, Sand is recognised as one of the most notable writers of the European Romantic era.
context_section_description: In 1822, at the age of eighteen, Sand married Casimir Dudevant (1795–1871; first name "François"), out-of-wedlock son of Baron Jean-François Dudevant. She and Dudevant had two children: Maurice (1823–1889) and Solange (1828–1899). In 1825 she had an intense but perhaps platonic affair with the young lawyer Aurélien de Sèze. In early 1831, she left her husband and entered upon a four- or five-year period of "romantic rebellion." In 1835, she was legally separated from Dudevant, and took custody of their children.
  Sand had romantic affairs with Jules Sandeau (1831), Prosper Mérimée, Alfred de Musset (summer 1833 – March 1835), Louis-Chrysostome Michel, Pierre-François Bocage, Charles Didier, Félicien Mallefille, Louis Blanc, and composer Frédéric Chopin (1837–1847). Later in her life, she corresponded with Gustave Flaubert, and despite their differences in temperament and aesthetic preference, they eventually became close friends. She engaged in an intimate romantic relationship with actress Marie Dorval,.
caption: George Sand by Nadar, 1864
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