Casimir Dudevant
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François Casimir Dudevant was the illegitimate son of Baron Jean-François Dudevant, a French military officer, and his mistress Augustine Soulé.
Dudevant in the 1860s
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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
Casimir Dudevant
…military officer, and his mistress Augustine Soulé. On 10 December 1822, Dudevant married Aurore Dupin, who became well known as an author using the name George Sand. Before separating in 1830, they had two children: Maurice (1823–1889) and Solange (1828–1899), who married the artist Auguste Clésinger in 1847…
1864 portrait
Portrait of George Sand by Thomas Sully, 1826
Sand sews while Chopin plays piano, in a hypothetical reconstruction of Delacroix's 1838 painting, Portrait of Frédéric Chopin and George Sand.