George Sand

Memoirist

Birthday July 1, 1804

Birth Sign Cancer

Birthplace Paris, France

DEATH DATE Jun 8, 1876 (71)

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About

Nineteenth-century French novelist who penned her memoirs and other literary works under a male pseudonym. Her novels include La Petite Fadette, Indiana, and A Winter in Majorca.

Before Fame

She published her first literary work, an autobiographical sketch entitled Voyage en Auvergne, in 1827.

Trivia

She was notorious in France for her affairs with Gustave Flaubert and Alfred de Musset.

Family Life

Born Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin, she was raised on her grandmother's French estate. She and her husband, Casimir Dudevant, had two children.

Associated With

She once had a romantic relationship with composer Frederic Chopin.