Amandine-Aurore-Lucile Dupin - later Baroness Dudevant (July 1, 1804 - June 8, 1876) was a Frenchnovelist and early feminist (prior to the invention of the word), writing under the pseudonym of George Sand.
She was born in Paris. In 1822, she married Baron Casimir Dudevant, and they had two children, Maurice (b. 1823) and Solange (b. 1828). In 1835 she parted from her husband.
Her first novel, "Rose Et Blanche" (1831) was written in collaboration with Jules Sandeau, from whom she took her pen-name.
Her successful novels: "Indiana" (1832), "Lélia" (1833), "Mauprat" (1837),
"Le Compagnon du Tour de France" (1840), "Consuelo" (1842 - 1843), "Le Meunier d'Angibault" (1845).
Drawing from her childhood experiences of the countryside, she wrote the rural novels
"La Mare du Diable" (1846), "François le Champi" (1847 - 1848), "La Petite Fadette" (1849),
"Les Beaux Messieurs Bois-Dore".
Her theatre pieces and autobiographical pieces, "Histoire de ma vie" (1855), "Elle et Lui" (1859) (about her affair with Musset), "Journal Intime" (posth. 1926), "Correspondance".
George Sand died at Nohant, near Chateauroux, in the Indre département; of France on June 8, 1876 at the age of 72. She was interred in the Cimetière du Montparnasse;, Paris, France.
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