Alfred de Musset
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Alfred Louis Charles de Musset-Pathay was a French dramatist, poet, and novelist. Along with his poetry, he is known for writing the autobiographical novel La Confession d'un enfant du siècle.
Musset painted by Charles Landelle
Commemorative plaque, 6 rue du Mont-Thabor, Paris
Tomb of Alfred de Musset in Père Lachaise Cemetery
Rolla by Henri Gervex, 1878
George Sand
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Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin de Francueil, best known by her pen name George Sand, was a French novelist, memoirist and journalist. Being more renowned than either Victor Hugo or Honoré de Balzac in B
Alfred de Musset
…to this with a poem of his own: "Nous l'avons eu, votre Rhin allemand" (We've had it, your German Rhine). The tale of his celebrated love affair with George Sand in 1833–1835 is told from his point of view in his autobiographical novel La Confession d'un Enfant du Siècle (The Confession of a Child of the Century…
1864 portrait
Portrait of George Sand by Thomas Sully, 1826
Casimir Dudevant, Sand's husband, in the 1860s
Sand sews while Chopin plays piano, in a hypothetical reconstruction of Delacroix's 1838 painting, Portrait of Frédéric Chopin and George Sand.