Sand, George

1804 - George Sand, born on the 1st of July in Paris, France. She was the pseudonym of the French novelist and feminist Amantine-Lucile-Aurore Dupin, later Baroness Dudevant.

1831 - She left her husband (Baron Dudevant) and family, and returned to Paris to take up literature, becoming the companion of those poets, artists, philosophers, and politicians whose work she found inspiring.

1832 - Her first novel, Indiana, was followed by over 100 books, the most successful being those describing rustic life.

1842 - 1843 - Her protest against social conventions and class restrictions can be found in novels such as Consuelo.

1848 - She settled at Nohant, where she spent the rest of her life in literary and political activity, varied by travel.

       - Published François le champi, which sparked Marcel's discovery of his vocation as a writer in Proust's A la recherche du temps perdu.

1876 - Died at Nohant, near Châteauroux, in the Indre département of France on the 8th of June at the age of 72 and was buried in the grounds of her home at Nohant.