Dupin had barely tolerated Sophie while her son was alive, and after he died she made it clear that her low-born daughter-in-law was not welcome under the same roof at the Nohant house. She was also devoted to Aurore and did not take kindly to the idea of losing custody and supervision of her to Sophie. Despite her travail during the uprising, she supported the revolution.
As a member of the pre-revolutionary aristocratic order, she had narrowly escaped the guillotine after imprisonment during the Reign of Terror, even though her husband was a disciple of political philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau, father of the French revolution. Dupin was Marshal de Saxe’s illegitimate daughter and had royal blood going back to the House of Bourbon. Dupin de Francueil, her grandmother, at her country home located in the French village of Nohant. Notwithstanding Sophie’s protestations, after her father’s death Aurore was brought to live with the patrician Mme. After the breakup of their amorous affair, Aurore and Sandeau went their separate ways to literary stardom.
#DUDEVANT DUPIN FULL#
At the age of three she traveled across the Pyrenees with her mother to join her father, who was on the staff of the Marshal of France, Prince Murat - subsequently to become King of Naples. It was a wondrous time for her, with remembrances of sharing a suite in the royal palace with her parents, serving as an informal adoptee of a military regiment, wearing a full green hussar uniform for the prince and being affectionately indulged by the regiment’s gruff military men. All this abruptly came to an end when her father, an expert horseman, was killed in a bizarre horse-riding accident. Little Aurore’s earliest years were during the time of the Napoleonic Wars. Sophie Delaborde, her mother, was a commoner from the Parisian lower classes and, by several accounts, a former prostitute who earlier had birthed two illegitimate children. In her autobiography, Sand elaborated at length on her unusual pedigree, discussing with pride both her royal antecedents and her common roots.
Her father, Maurice Dupin, was a retired army lieutenant who could trace his ancestry back to such notables as Louis XV and the military hero Marechal Maurice de Saxe, the illegitimate son of Polish King August II and the ravishingly beautiful Countess of Konigsmarck. Sand was born Amandine Lucile Aurore Dupin in Paris in 1804, a month prior to the wedding of her father and mother. She was noted for both her many lovers, which led to her being characterized as unchaste - indeed, a nymphomaniac and a slut to some of her critics - and, at the same time, for her strong maternal instincts. She was controversial in the dress she affected, often wearing men’s garb and hats, and she smoked cigars and cigarettes in public at a time when such practice was unthinkable for women. Sand was also a protofeminist more than a century before the feminist movement took hold in Europe and America. She wrote more than seventy novels, twenty-four plays, ten autobiographical volumes and 40,000 letters - half of them published - as well as numerous book reviews, political pamphlets and essays.
#DUDEVANT DUPIN PROFESSIONAL#
She was unapproached among women novelists during her day and is considered by many to be the very first professional woman writer of fiction. She came to be known as George Sand, the most influential female author in France during the nineteenth century and arguably second only to Victor Hugo among all writers in the history of French literature.
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