Solange Dudevant (13 September 1828 – 17 March 1899) was a French writer and novelist and the daughter of
George Sand
Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin de Francueil (; 1 July 1804 – 8 June 1876), best known by her pen name George Sand (), was a French novelist, memoirist and journalist. One of the most popular writers in Europe in her lifetime, bein ...
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Biography
Solange Dudevant was born to author
George Sand
Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin de Francueil (; 1 July 1804 – 8 June 1876), best known by her pen name George Sand (), was a French novelist, memoirist and journalist. One of the most popular writers in Europe in her lifetime, bein ...
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Nohant
Nohant-Vic () is a commune in the Indre department in central France.
It is located near La Châtre, on the D943, approximately southeast of Châteauroux and consists of two villages, Vic and Nohant, extended along the road.
Geography
The co ...
on 13 September 1828. She was Sand's second child. Although Sand was married to
Casimir Dudevant
François Casimir Dudevant (6 July 1795 – 8 March 1871) was the illegitimate son of Baron Jean-François Dudevant (1754–1826), a French military officer, and his mistress Augustine Soulé.
On 10 December 1822, Dudevant married Aurore Dupin, ...
at the time, Solange's father was rumored to be
Stéphane de Grandsagne.
In 1846 Solange became engaged to Fernand de Preaulx. But in 1847, she married the sculptor
Auguste Clésinger, whom she met while posing for a bust. Solange was 19; the sculptor 32. The couple had a daughter, Jeanne, in 1848, but the child died a week after birth. A second daughter, also named Jeanne, was born in 1849. Nicknamed Nini, that child died in 1855 of Scarlet Fever.
[Cate, Curtis. ''George Sand: A Biography''. New York: Avon, 1975. Print. ]
Under the name Solange Clésinger-Sand, she published her first novel, ''Jacques Bruneau'', in 1870. Her second book, ''Carl Robert'', was published in 1887.
She died on March 17, 1899 at her home in Paris and is buried in a private cemetery in
Nohant-Vic.
Works
*''Jacques Bruneau'', 1870
*''Carl Robert'', 1887
References
1828 births
1899 deaths
19th-century French novelists
19th-century French women writers
French women novelists
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