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George Sand, the pseudonym of Amantine-Lucile-Aurore Dupin (1804–1876), was a much-admired French novelist and memoirist. She is equally well known for her much-publicized romantic affairs with a number of celebrities, including Frédéric Chopin and Alfred de Musset. It was the way Sand turned her own love affairs into novels and stories packed with vehemence of spirit which endeared her to her audience.
In The Marquise, Sand displays her instinctive feeling for the true sense of the “conte” or short story. She neither analyses nor explains the character of the old noblewoman who falls in love with an actor, she merely suggests the strength of passion in the cold, cynical, aged beauty. In this truly exceptional short story, Sands leaves the listener’s imagination vibrating with its own images thrown up by the hints she gives.
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About George Sand
George Sand is the pen name of Amantine-Lucile-Aurore Dupin, Baroness Dudevant, a nineteenth-century French novelist and memoirist. Sand is best known for her novels Indiana, Lélia, and Consuelo, and for her memoir A Winter in Majorca, in which she reflects on her time on the island with Chopin in 1838 to 1839. A champion of the poor and working classes, Sand was an early socialist who published her own newspaper using a workers’ co-operative and scorned gender conventions by wearing men’s clothing and smoking tobacco in public.
About Cathy Dobson
Cathy Dobson is the author of Planet Germany and a narrator of audiobooks.