George Sand has managed to plunge Nohant into a formidable cultural bubbling. The mixture of this new theme, combined with beautiful writing and the intrigue around this “George Sand” that no one knew, quickly made her books a success.
In her books, she evokes the feminine condition, a new theme for the time. I quickly choose George’s name, which seemed to me synonymous with Berrichon.” – George Sand, Story of my life … Delatouche, consulted, decided the question by a compromise: Sand would remain intact and I would take another first name that would serve only me. I had written “Indiana” in Nohant, I wanted to give it under the pseudonym requested but Jules Sandeau, out of modesty, did not want to accept the authorship of a book he was completely strangers to. This work brought another publisher who asked for another novel under the same pseudonym. A first book was sketched by me, then redone in its entirety by Jules Sandeau, who Delatouche named Jules Sand. In any case, I was determined to remain anonymous. “The name I had to put on ‘printed covers’ didn’t bother me much. So when Aurore wrote her first book Indiana, she naturally kept the name Sand but chose the first name George which for her is synonymous with Berry its etymology meaning “he who works the land”. The couple became journalists for the newspaper Le Figaro and signed their papers with the name J Sand. In 1831, Aurore went to Paris and maintained a liaison with Jules Sandeau. George Sand Portrait by Auguste Charpentier (1838) Aurore, a modern woman, fights successfully at a time when break-ups are taboo to obtain this separation while keeping the castle of Nohant. But the marriage is shaky: Aurore wants freedom where François Dudevant wants to manage everything she is passionate about the arts, he has little sensitivity … So much so that after ten years of marriage the separation is inevitable. She quickly married François Dudevant, with whom she had two children, Solange and Maurice. When her grandmother died in 1821, Aurore was only 17 years old and inherited a vast estate. Despite this tragedy, she lives a happy childhood in Nohant. At the age of four, little Aurore’s life is turned upside down: she has lost her father and will now be raised by her grandmother. For a comfortable pension, Sophie Victoire returns to Paris and entrusts the guardianship of her child to the grandmother. Dupin had just lost her only son and wanted to keep her granddaughter with her. In 1808, the family visited the grandmother but the stay turned into a nightmare when Maurice Dupin died in a horse accident.
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