“There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.”
George Sand
George Sand
Amantine Aurore Lucile Dupin, Baronne Dudevant (1804 – 1876), best known by her pseudonym George Sand, was a French novelist.
She was contemporary with Benjamin's favourite poet, Baudelaire, who had this to say about her:-
"She is stupid, heavy and garrulous. Her ideas on morals have the same depth of judgment and delicacy of feeling as those of janitresses and kept women... The fact that there are men who could become enamoured of this slut is indeed a proof of the abasement of the men of this generation."
Later in her life she became great friends with Flaubert, their letters making for very interesting reading.
