 George Sand (1804 – 1876) On this day in 1804 George Sand (Aurore Dupin) was born. Sand wrote almost a hundred novels and plays but it is the dare of her life that now attracts most attention — her cross-dressing, her cigars, her feminism, her bisexuality, her relationships with Chopin and other leading figures (de Musset, Delacroix, Flaubert, Balzac, Liszt) in literary-artistic Paris. |
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