New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-06-26
GEORGE SAND.


name of George Sand has for the past twenty years
delighted or shocked the world with the creations Of
her genius. Concerning no character have so msny
klsehoods and inspid fables been set aaoat about
Me renowned Chatelaine de Nohau,
George Sand more than sny other notability hiss
given employment to biographers and pampheteers
Since che accomplished through "Indans" and
hter through the unfortunate suit against her husband
he literary and social circuit, the renowned woman
has become an object Of the most prosecuting curl
osty and the intrusive find no too base to gain
sdmittapce into her presence If be but for
moment. Recourse has been had to disguise OF every
sort; and the wel-ksown nobody, NJ Lomenie
has himself told us how as a chimney-sweep ne
s,ipped in 10 see George Sand. The indiscr inmate
applause OF critics Of tourists OF letterwntng Clerks
and professional travellers, who believed that ther
dutv was not fulfilled so long they had not shaken
hands with every notability in Paris, compelled the
lovely. trusting nature to withdraw entirely from
society TmOrousy che returned to the circle OF her
tried friends and when the importantly If the curl
Gus became insupportable she permitted herself to
play the annoyed authoress and sometimes TO indlct
fhe revenge Of an innocent mystihcation SO TO q
lawyer who wanted TO make the acquaintance OF
George Sand at any price, her chambermaid was pre-
scnted, while mother and daughter hidden IN an al
cove enjoyed the comic mpersonntion. Several days
aierward the lawyer enraptuIed with the wonderful
conversation of the renowned poetess, was repeating
n and was almost drawn into duel by incidentally
expressing his regret that George Sand had lost her
teeth.
People generally have false idea Of the personal
eppearence and character Of this authoress for what
The dis6guremens of the biographies leave undone Is
completed by the imagination of romantic readers,
who always suppose authors to be heroes and herones
And 90 George Sand to most people hos become
type of the eccentric which has no point OF similarity
with the original foreigner whom Nine. Niardot
had promised introduce TO the authoress found on
being ushered into the workroom Of the genial singer
little woman who was diligently cutting out dress
The busy little woman caught the inquirng look
which the stranger cast toward Nine Viardot, and
cried out with comic eanestness, Yes, it Is l. does
"this astonish you p 1t did not astonsh the stran-
ger, who had been warned Of it, but it will astonsh
very many readers TO hear that Mme. George Sand
understands herself in housewifery; that she makes
clothes captaly the wardrobe of her private theater
at Nohaut was made by her and her daughterl that
she sometimes embroiders pastime; and that she
makes the most exquisite confectionery that ever busy
housewife set before her guests. She lacks nothing
but time TO be a most perfect housekoeper; and if
she who has received thousands for her works has but
iust now written to lady friend :" have not SOU"
this only shows her unexanpled generosity. With a
reason for it, our authoress calculate closely
the best book-keeper; but at the sight of suffering
poverty she forgets this positive talent she gives as
long as she has and in extraordinary cases more than
she has.
Her outward appearance is very little like her por
traits although there are some fine ones George
Sand is q little plump woman. Her black hair lies
simply and smoothly parted on her broad high brow
which is still without q wrinkle and clear the
surface of an unrufled Her large eye beams
with an expression of mild sadness-of modest wO-
rnanhood-which can only be returned with love and
sympathy Her nose is rather large, rendering her
face somewhat masculine bat this counteracted by
her gracefully smiling mouth, and still more by the
soft melody of her mothery ringing tones Her face
Is rather long and has expression of great kind
meas; but her rounded temples give some indication
of the mind that works within. George Sand says her.
self that she is like lamb and is quite willing TO hear
her intimate friends say that she seems really stupid
Her appearance may be described in few words: A
good, gentle modest natural sensible woman, lack
ing none Of the attributes of the tenderest woman
hood That she has in addition taken the liberty to
be great genius is not perceived from her outward
appearance at first sight
Distorted ae are the sketches OF neI chHrdcter anu
6fe those of her family not less so. We can SEQ
from her memoirs, now commenced, that even her
name has been fasihed, that it is not Marie Aman.
tine Aurore Dupn, but Amantine Lucille Aurore Du-
min; and that her husband Francois Dudevant, is no
baron, nor even an old colonel. He has never
passed the grade Of sub-ieutenant; and he only
twenty-seven years old when he married Mdlle. Du-
pin Her genealogy is tolerably well given by her
biographers; she Is descended on her fathers side
from Augustus II, King of Poland. The Marshal
Morits Of Saxony-the renowned victor of Fonte-
noy, natural son Of that King and the wel-known
Countess of K0nigsmark- inheritod in lsve affairs
the Inconsistency of his father One of his last iasons
vas with Mdlle. Verrieqe, an actress, whose real
name was Marie RiDtau. Marie Aurore the off
spring of that intimacy. After the death of her
parents she was recognized by Parliament as the
natural daughter of the Marshal, and married to
Count Horn. This bond, which had only the name of
marriage was dissolved few years after by the death
Of the Count, who fell in duel. The widow retired
10 convent but soon left it to become the wife of M.
Dupn do FrancueiI the son of a farmer general, one
of the moneyed aristocracy Of the time, he himself
being Encouragement. George Sand pictures the
extraordinary gifts of her grandfather in the eloquent
and loving words of her grandmother and one cannot
bot love this noble form Of the eighteenth century.
From this marriage between the daughter of the Mar
shall Of Saxony and the of the farmer general
sprang a single son-Maurce Dupin, the father of
George Sand. The mother of the poe;ess was the
daughter of an obscure fowler Lucille Aurore Dupn
was according to her own authority born in 1904; she
makes herself year older than her bographers do.
For long time she was ignorant of it herself as well