George SAND

Paris 1804 - Nohant 1876

Biography



The French Romantic novelist, playwright and memoirist Amantine Lucile Dupin is better known by her pseudonym George Sand, which she adopted from around 1831 onwards. A prolific writer and essayist, Sand was also notorious for her romantic affairs with several distinguished men, notably a ten-year relationship with Frédéric Chopin.