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At the beginning of this powerful novel, we meet Aurore Dupin as she is leaving her estranged husband, a loveless marriage, and her family’s estate in the French countryside to start a new life in Paris. There, she gives herself a new name—George Sand—and pursues her dream of becoming a writer, embracing an unconventional and even scandalous lifestyle.
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Cette biographie en partie fictive de l'auteure Aurore Dupin, connue sous le nom de George Sand, est tout à fait fascinante. On découvre une femme forte, brillante et travaillante, qui est également sensible, fragile et seule. Ce roman donne le goût de lire (ou de relire) ses oeuvres.
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Thirteen-year-old Maurice was the soulful artist, the one I found easier to love. A mother wants to love her children equally, but she is human, and she can favor the child who is more like her, or at least who fights less against her.
He had, too, an air of perpetual distractibility, as though he held the Almighty in one hand and you in the other and could never quite decide to whom he should give is complete attention.
I learned that when a woman is with child, her focus shifts dramatically; she cares for the one Inside her with a single-mindedness, if not ferocity, that she is incapable to resisting.
"By now, he is telling all his friends that he had me. Ah, let them talk; I appreciate the worth of gossip in keeping alive a reputation I no longer have the energy to maintain."
Faced with growing older, one is consoled by things both predictable and surprising. Grandchildren are expected to bring joy, and I lost my heart to all of mine (...)
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