Biography of Aurora Dupin
Sand J. George Sand - pseudonym; The real name is Aurora Dupin, the husband is Dudevan. Her father, gifted and the young aristocrat, entered into the ranks of the revolutionary army during the revolution, made a number of Napoleonic campaigns and died young. His wife Sofia Victoria Antoinette Delaboard was the daughter of a Parisian seller of birds, the heale of the daughter of the people.
The future writer visited her mother during the Napoleonic campaign in Spain, then fell into a quiet village atmosphere to her grandmother, who brought her up according to the ideas Jean Jacques Rousseau. Living in constant close communication with the peasants, the girl found out the life of both the village poor and the rustic rich, she was used to taking the interests of the first and negatively related to rural fists.
She received education in the monastery, like many girls of her environment. Upon leaving the monastery, Aurora was passionately carried away by reading and re -read the entire library of the old woman Dupin. The works of Russo were especially fascinated, and his influence was reflected in her whole work. After the death of her grandmother, Aurora soon married Casimir Dudevan.
Dudevan turned out to be a completely inappropriate comrade for a smart, inquisitive, dreamy and peculiar woman. It was a typical bourgeoiser. She parted with him, left for Paris and began to lead, on the one hand, completely student, free, and on the other - a purely professional, writer's working life. Literary talent affected Aurora Dupin very early.
Her literary activity began with joint work with Jules Sando. The fruit of this “collective creativity” is the novel “Rose and Blanche”, or “Actress and the nun” came to the under the pseudonym Jules Sand half named after Sando - Sandeau and was successful. Publishers wished to publish a new work of this author. Aurora in Nogan wrote its part, and Sando is only one title.
The publishers demanded that the novel be released with the name of the same Sandy's success, and Jules Sando did not want to put his surname under the alien work. To resolve the dispute, Sando was now advised to write under his full name and surname, and Aurora - to take half of this surname and put the name Georges in front of her in Berry.
So the pseudonym Jorge Sand appeared. Preferring the men's costume to the female, Georges Sand traveled to such places in Paris, where aristocrats, as a rule, did not fall. For the highest classes of France of the 19th century, such behavior was considered unacceptable, so that it actually lost the status of a baroness. Contemporaries considered Sand unstable and heartless, called her a lesbian and were surprised why she chose men younger than herself.
Was George Sand beautiful? Some said yes, others considered her disgusting. Contemporaries depicted her with a woman of short stature, dense physique, with a gloomy face, large eyes, yellow skin and premature wrinkles on the neck. True, everyone admitted that she had beautiful hands. But the men in love with her did not spare for her describing enthusiastic epithets.
Among the lovers, Georges Sand were Graver Damien Manso, who met her when he was 32 years old, while she was 45, and who lived quietly and peacefully with her for 15 years, as well as artist Charles Marshal, whom Sand called "my fat child." When they met, Charles was 39 years old, and Sand went on stubborn rumors about her connections and with other men, in particular, with a literary critic Gustava, who once even called another critic to the duel, which allowed himself to respond without proper respect for the next romance of Georges Sand.
With Frederick Chopen George Sand met at a reception of one countess. The composer was not amazed at her beauty - he did not even like the famous writer. It is all the more amazing that after a while the gentle, thin, vulnerable Chopin fell in love with a woman who smoked tobacco and openly spoke any topic. Malorca became the place of their cohabitation. The scene is different, but the story is the same with the same sad end.
Schopen, combustible by passion, fell ill as Alfred de Musset once. When the composer had the first signs of consumption, Georges Sand began to be weighed down by him. It is difficult to love a sick, capricious and irritable person. Georges Sand herself admitted this. Chopin did not want a break. An experienced woman in such matters experienced all funds, but in vain.
Then she wrote a novel in which, under fictional names, she portrayed herself and her lover, and she endowed the hero with all conceivable weaknesses, and exalted herself to heaven. It seemed that now the end was inevitable, but Chopin hesitated. He still thought that it was possible to return the irrevocable. In the year, ten years after their first meeting, the lovers broke up.
A year after the separation of Chopin and Georges Sand met in the house of their common acquaintance. Complete repentance, she went to the former lover and held out her hand.But Chopin left the hall, without saying a word of the last years of her life, Georges Sand spent in her estate, where she enjoyed universal respect and earned the nickname "a kind lady from Noan." There she died on June 8