Flaubert-Sand (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)

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When Gustave Flaubert and George Sand began their thirteen- year friendship in the early 1860’s, both had acquired controversial reputations in France’s literary and social circles. Sand was born Amandine-Aurore-Lucile Dupin in 1804 to Maurice Dupin, an officer in Napoleon I’s armee d’Italie and Sophie Delaborde, a young proletarian woman; when she and Flaubert first met, she had already acquired the status of an accomplished writer of plays, novels, and articles. Married in 1822 to Casimer Dudevant and renowned for her tumultuous affairs with Alfred de Musset, novelist,...

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