33 Facts About George Sand

George Sand has more than 50 volumes of various works to her credit, including tales, plays and political texts, alongside her 70 novels.

George Sand was considered scandalous because of her turbulent love life, her adoption of masculine clothing, and her masculine pseudonym.

Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin, the future George Sand, was born on 1 July 1804 on Meslay Street in Paris to Maurice Dupin de Francueil and Sophie-Victoire Delaborde.

George Sand was the paternal great-granddaughter of the Marshal of France Maurice de Saxe, and on her mother's side, her grandfather was Antoine Delaborde, master paumier and master birder.

George Sand inherited the house in 1821 when her grandmother died, and used the setting in many of her novels.

George Sand was one of many notable 19th-century women who chose to wear male attire in public.

George Sand obtained a permit to wear men's clothing in 1831, justifying it as being less expensive and far sturdier than the typical dress of a noblewoman at the time.

George Sand added George to complete the name and distinguish it from Sandeau's, removing the final "s" from the usual French spelling of the name to heighten its ambiguity as a pseudonym.

Sometimes when writing first person memoirs or essays, George Sand's language "speaks to modern explorations of gender ambiguity" in the consistent use of a first-person "male persona" used to describe George Sand's own experiences and identity in masculine terms.

In 1822, at the age of eighteen, George Sand married Casimir Dudevant, an illegitimate son of Baron Jean-Francois Dudevant.

George Sand wrote about Dorval, including many passages where she is described as smitten with Dorval.

George Sand had never been taught anything, but there was nothing she did not know by instinct.

Theater critic Gustave Planche reportedly warned George Sand to stay away from Dorval.

In 1840, Dorval played the lead in a play written by George Sand, titled Cosima, and the two women collaborated on the script.

George Sand is cared for by a middle-aged actress past her prime, Lucrezia, who suffers greatly through her affection for Karol.

George Sand took Chopin's support of Solange to be extremely disloyal, and confirmation that Chopin had always "loved" Solange.

Maurice removed two sentences from a letter George Sand wrote to Chopin when he published it because he felt that George Sand was too affectionate toward Chopin and Solange.

Chopin and George Sand separated two years before his death for a variety of reasons.

George Sand fell passionately in love with Manceau, he became her lover, companion and secretary and they stayed together for fifteen years until his death.

George Sand had no choice but to write for the theater because of financial difficulties.

In 1864, George Sand took residence in Palaiseau together with her beloved Manceau for a couple of months, where she tended him in his decline.

George Sand died at Nohant, near Chateauroux, in France's Indre departement on 8 June 1876, at the age of 71.

George Sand was buried in the private graveyard behind the chapel at Nohant-Vic.

George Sand often performed her theatrical works in her small private theatre at the Nohant estate.

George Sand started her own newspaper, published in a workers' co-operative.

George Sand was a member of the provisional government of 1848, issuing a series of fiery manifestos.

George Sand was known for her implication and writings during the Paris Commune of 1871, where she took a position for the Versailles assembly against the communards, urging them to take violent action against the rebels.

George Sand's writing was immensely popular during her lifetime and she was highly respected by the literary and cultural elite in France.

Fyodor Dostoevsky "read widely in the numerous novels of George Sand" and translated her La derniere Aldini in 1844, only to learn that it had already been published in Russian.

Critics have noted structural and thematic similarities between George Sand's Indiana, published in 1832, and Gomez de Avellaneda's anti-slavery novel Sab, published in 1841.

George Sand makes an appearance in Isabel Allende's Zorro, going still by her given name, as a young girl in love with Diego de la Vega.

George Sand is portrayed by Merle Oberon in A Song to Remember, by Patricia Morison in Song Without End, by Rosemary Harris in Notorious Woman, by Judy Davis in James Lapine's 1991 British-American film Impromptu; and by Juliette Binoche in the 1999 French film Children of the Century.

George Sand is portrayed by Nine D'Urso in the 2025 TV series La rebelle: Les aventures de la jeune George Sand.