Word: musset
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GEORGE SAND was an infamous woman. Her much flaunted affairs with Chopin, de Musset and innumerable other artists and writers, her publicized separation from her husband (who probably fathered only one of the two children bearing his name), even her attire and habits--she regularly appeared in Parisian theatres sporting a suit of man's clothes, smoking Turkish cigarettes--provided reams of copy for 19th century scandal sheets and an inexhaustible gossip topic for European salons. But in this new biography, Joseph Barry correctly points out that Sand was more than the mistress of famous men and deserves...
Tales of George Sand's amours with Liszt, Heine, Balzac and Flaubert are also dismissed as apocryphal. With the record thus cleared, Biographer Cate dramatically details the involvements that his scholarship can verify-including affairs with Prosper Mérimeée, Alfred de Musset, Frédéric Chopin, one Italian surgeon, two French lawyers and an international assortment of young men who entered Sand's household as tutors for her two children, Maurice and Solange...
...Driving through the Bois de Boulogne one day, De Gaulle passed a graceful brunette. She recognized him and waved a scarf. De Gaulle waved back and then half-whispered to his aide-de-camp a few lines of Musset...
...year term would end. Pompidou tossed off a double allusion when he replied: "As you like it." He may have been referring to Shakespeare's comedy. But as a Frenchman, he might also have had in mind a 19th century play of the same name by Alfred de Musset...