#george sand

[mournfulroses]

Alfred de Musset, from a translated letter to George Sand, featured in «Ô mon George, ma belle maîtresse...»: Lettres

[oldwinesoul]

// George Sand (1804-1876), in a letter to Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880), Nohant, 28 April, 1872 in: " The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters, translated from the French by A.L. McKenzie (1921)

[and-not-waving-but-drowning]

Delacroix’s portrait of George Sand in 1838, two years before the Catholic Church banned “all her love stories.” / Eugène Delacroix/Bibliothèque Polonaise, via Bridgeman Images

For nearly half of the 19th century, the French writer George Sand dominated literary Europe. She produced over 70 novels; 17,000 letters, some to the literati of her day; numerous essays and articles; and dozens of plays. She outshone Victor Hugo and Honoré de Balzac in reviews. Elizabeth Barrett Browning penned sonnets about her. And Fyodor Dostoyevsky spent his adolescence blithely absorbing her prose.

Modern times, somehow, chiefly remember her as the lover of Frédéric Chopin and as a connoisseur of suits, cigars and much younger men.

[maryflorlovyblog]

"Memory is the perfume of the soul. It is the most delicate and tender part of the heart, which reaches out to embrace another heart..."

– George Sand

[flowersofmaldoror]

George Sand's herbarium

[smelliestofthemall]

also!!! imagine if they did acc attend chopins funeral 😭😭

saying "my chopin" . oh lord i feast

[nobrashfestivity]

George Sand c. 1870-1876 gouache on paper Sheet9 ⅜ × 6 ⅛ in23.81 × 15.56 cm

[mademoisellemort]

Werewolves leaning against the wall of a cemetery at night, 1858. Lithograph by Maurice Sand, George Sand’s son