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Fellowe was Hungarian Pianist Franz Liszt. One of the women was the Countess Marie d'Agoult. She had caused quite a scandal by leaving her husband and running away with Liszt after they had wept together over one of those novels by George Sand in which the heroines always prefer passion to domesticity. The Piffoel family was Authoress Sand and her children. Part of the confusion of genders came about because Liszt's brilliant pupil, Hermann Cohen, another of the party, insisted on wearing girl's clothes. Madame Sand insisted on wearing men's clothes. They...
Most people who know that George Sand (real name: Amantine Lucile Aurore Dudevant, nee Dupin) was a French novelist have seldom read one of her novels all the way through. This week appeared a full-length life of Authoress Sand...
...George Sand was born with one great advantage over other Romantics-her great-great-grandfather was Augustus the Strong, King of Poland. Her great-grandfather was Augustus' bastard son, the famous soldier and tactician, Marshal Maurice de Saxe. Her grandmother married the Count de Horn, bastard son of Louis XV. Her mother was the daughter of a poolroom proprietor. Her husband was the bastard son of Baron Dudevant...
...nine one-sidedly faithful years in the country during which Husband Dudevant straightened garden paths, shot mangy dogs, shot the peacocks that soiled the lawns and the drawing-room rugs, drank, hunted, carried on affairs with the servants, speculated with his wife's money. At last George Sand dashed off to Paris and Author Jules San-deau, who greeted her with: "Welcome to Bohemia...
Alone again, Authoress Sand considered Pianist Liszt as a successor to Musset and the doctor. Replied the cautious virtuoso: Only God deserves to be loved. In 1836 George Sand wrote in her diary: "Farewell, Eros! You idol of my youth! . . . The present and future are free for the service of humanity. . . ." She began to write proletarian novels in which heroines no longer deserted their husbands for love but for the revolution and the socialist teachings of Saint-Simon and Louis Blanc...