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George Sand's house
“I had written Indiana in Nohant, I wanted to give it under the pseudonym I asked for; but Jules Sandeau,
George Sand
out of modesty, did not want to accept the authorship of a book to which he was completely foreign. This did not make the publisher’s account. The name is everything to
the sale, and the small pseudonym was well sold, one
essentially wanted to keep it.”
The house of George Sand, a large family estate
Although she was born in Paris in 1804, it was in the family estate of Nohant that George Sand lived all her life and died on June 8, 1876. The future author settled there with her mother and grandmother, Marie-Aurore Dupin. In the 1830s, she met Jules Sandeau with whom she wrote articles in the pages of the Figaro.
Under the pseudonym of J. Sand, they imagine Rose and Blanche. She abandons Amantine Aurore Lucile Dupin de Francueil for her artist name George Sand. It was a request from her publisher that led her to choose this alias. She opts for George without the S for ambiguity. The first name George refers to the notion of “one who works the land”. The author dresses as a man thanks to a permission of cross-dressing from the prefecture of police of Indre.
Indiana, first novel written in Nohant
It was in the winter of 1831-1832 that she wrote Indiana à Nohant, her first book. She also wrote country novels set in the Berry region, notably La Petite Fadette or La Mare au diable.
The park of the house extends over six hectares today, while that in the time of George Sand, its surface was 250 hectares.
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House of George Sand
Place of cultural bubbling, the house of George Sand is a place of creation and life. A domain where the novelist lived until her last moments.
The small town of Indre can be proud of having received all the top French artists. The old feudal fortress of the 15th century, of which only the towers remain, has been listed as a historical monument since 1952. Vestibule, staircase, living room, kitchens, Aurore de Saxe’s room, blue room, study and boudoir are preserved in the same way as in George Sand’s time. The six-hectare park houses a rosarium and the writer’s tomb. It was painted by Eugène Delacroix under the title Le domaine de Nohant in the 1840s.
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