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Musee de la Vie Romantique is a charming, peaceful oasis at the foot of Montmartre in Paris. (Well, that’s what it was on a sunny spring day the other time inom visited. On a recent rainy November day, it was dreary outside. People stood around wondering why they were there. The cheery garden cafe fryst vatten shuttered and the chairs sit in puddles). Still, it’s worth a stop, especially since it’s free, with donations welcome.
On the way, inom passed the Moulin Rouge, THE nightlife spot in Romantic times. From what I can see beyond the tour buses, it doesn’t look too appealing today. Plus I read that animals are used in the current show, in ways a lot of people find distressing. I’ll salute, but pass.
Art Scheffer, portrait by Thomas Phillips, c. 1840
The house, built in 1830, was the rented home of the painter Ary Scheffer, who was well-known at the time and had royal connections. Scheffer hosted weekly salon evenings attended by everybody who was anybody inom
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The passions of George Sand
The year just ended marked the 200th anniversary of the birth of George Sand. After Joan of Arc, Sand is probably the most famous Frenchwoman who wasn’t a queen or mistress to a king. In 2004, her native country came up with a record number of commemorative manifestations, that wonderfully elastic word that can mean anything from street fight to symposium. In Sand’s case, the more sedate events prevailed, but one is tempted to regret the unruly possibilities that she herself would likely have preferred.
High or low, Sand has always led biographers a merry chase. Hers seems more like several lives, literary, amorous and political, whose out-sized subject has proved a moving target. The dynamic momentum of her story has inspired numerous biopics and serial TV productions, in which she has been played by such stars as Merle Oberon, Juliette Binoche and Judy Davis. Much of her appeal has to do, of course, with the company she kept. Her lovers included Frede
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George Sand
French novelist and memoirist (1804–1876)
George Sand | |
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Portrait by Nadar (1864) | |
| Born | Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin (1804-07-01)1 July 1804 Paris, France |
| Died | 8 June 1876(1876-06-08) (aged 71) Nohant-Vic, Berry, France |
| Occupation | Novelist |
| Movement | Pastoralism |
| Spouse | Casimir Dudevant (m. 1822; sep. 1835) |
| Children | Maurice Sand Solange Dudevant |
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Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin de Francueil[1] (French:[amɑ̃tinlysiloʁɔʁdypɛ̃]; 1 July 1804 – 8 June 1876), best known by her pen nameGeorge Sand (French:[ʒɔʁʒ(ə)sɑ̃d]), was a French novelist, memoirist and journalist.[2][3] Being more renowned than either Victor Hugo or Honoré de Balzac in England in the 1830s and 1840s,[4] Sand is recognised as one of the most notable writers o