Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin de Francueil, best known by her pen name George Sand, was a French novelist, memoirist and journalist. One of the most popular writers in Europe in her lifetime, being more renowned than either Victor Hugo or Honoré de Balzac in England in the 1830s and 1840s, Sand is recognised as one of the most notable writers of the European Romantic era. She wrote more than 50 volumes of various works to her credit, including tales, plays and political texts, alongside her 70 novels.
Portrait of George Sand by Nadar (march 1864)
Aurore Dupin meeting Joachim Murat in her uniform, illustrated by H. J. Ford in 1913
Portrait of George Sand by Thomas Sully, 1826
Casimir Dudevant, Sand's husband, in the 1860s
Victor-Marie Hugo, vicomte Hugo, sometimes nicknamed the Ocean Man, was a French Romantic writer and politician. During a literary career that spanned more than sixty years, he wrote in a variety of genres and forms.
Portrait by Étienne Carjat, 1875
Sophie Trébuchet, mother of Victor Hugo
General Joseph-Leopold Hugo, father of Victor Hugo
Hugo by Jean Alaux, 1825