"George Sand - La bonne dame de Nohant" Nohant by josephescu

Brought up in Nohant by her grandmother, Aurore Dupin was married at the age of eighteen to Baron Casimir Dudevant, by whom she had two children. But nine years later she left him and settled in Paris to live with the novelist Jules Sandeau. Aurore then became George, borrowed the first part of the name Sandeau, dressed as a man and smoked cigars
Sand came up against prejudice many times - mostly because of her succession of love affairs, particularly the ones with the Alfred de Musset and later with Frédéric Chopin.

the Manoir of George Sand

a Mecca of artistic meetings and social gatherings - among the most famous visitors, there were Franz Liszt, Eugène Delacroix, Honoré de Balzac, Théophile Gautier, Gustave Flaubert.