by Emily E. Hogstad November 15th, 2023 It’s one of the most romanticized love affairs in music history: dashing cross-dressing woman novelist George Sand becomes obsessed with, and then seduces, the sickly consumptive pianist-composer Frédéric Chopin . But how much of this story is real, and how much of it is just mythologizing? Today we are looking at the real story behind the love affair between George Sand and Frédéric Chopin. George Sand’s Childhood and Marriage George Sand Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin de Francueil was born on 1 July 1804 in Paris. As a girl, she lived with her grandmother at the family manor house in Nohant , roughly three hundred kilometers from Paris. In 1821, her grandmother died, and Aurore inherited the manor. The house at Nohant became a home base for her throughout her life. In 1822, at the age of eighteen, Dupin married a man named Casimir Dudevant , whose biggest accomplishment in life ended up being George ...
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