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

considered that contact with inhabitants oil cites,
and with members Of the privileged orders was ne
oes,.ry. and was therefore compelled TO elevate
Jeanne, by sort Of sckly power Of prophecy, to
level with other heroes Of the fashionable world sue
made Kind Of moderate Joan-of-Arc Of her, who,
for the salvation Of prcsen society from misery re-
nounced her vow Of chastity as the maid of Orleans
did to free her native country from foreign yoke
Horace was rejected by the Revuedes Dear AOS1,s,
anparer tly as too democratic. That led TO break
ND with Bulox George Sand, with Pierre Lerour,
started the Rerse Indtpeadaute and in this Consueo
also was published This work was perhaps prompted
by the voluminous newspaper novels OF Sue and Du-
mas. Moreover the success of this romance may
have induced her to extend it George Sand enjoys
the company Of her heroes and remains with them as
long as she can. She often tells her friends tn. she
has TO overcome feeling OF sadness when she has
finished romance; the characters have become her
friends and il gives her pain TO part with them. She
nrized Consuelo especially, and on reading it
not long ago she designated it as one OF her favorte
romHnces.
The first Of the longer village stories appeared in
the Journal des De5ats. II is Francois le Champ;
and its publication was interrupted by the Revolution
of February. The end appeared many weeks after
the Revolution. Great was the noise tina, this
LEGATION. the appearance of the conclusion excited no
attention. The world was then busy with another
romance-it was the Romance of Freedom, and all
Europe was the hero.
George Sand became fonder and fonder Of these
village portraures and the Champi was followed by
La Petite Ladete-that masterpiece of quiet life,
no Flemish painter gave it more perfect express
son-and Les Maitres SOnneurs, an interesting village
romance.
After the days of February, when the Republic
was proclaimed and while il promised to become a
permanence the actors-inordinary of the Repubique
FRANCHISE paid their court to their mistress, just as
they would bow themselves in the dust to-day before
Napoleon III, were he graciousy pleased to permit
it. The Emperor simply shows them to Fould, and
they have to be satisfied with prostration before him.
And So as the actors under a republican government
wished TO become well-pleasing in the eyes of the
Republic, they had recourse to Nine. Sand, through
their organ, Regnier. He advised her to dramatize
her last romance, Francois le Champ, and promised
her the most brilliant success. George Sand allowed
herself to be drawn into the project, and in few
weeks the drama was ready. Mdle. Augustine
Brohan undertook TO hasten the representation
everything should go on rapidly. Francois 10
Champ remained in care OF the waiting woman of
the Theatre Francois; the representation was con-
tnualy being put off, and yet there was some hesta-
ton about sending back the manuscript The The
etre Francois dipomatized; the Republic was not
vet dead but the Election of the 10th of December
had given it death.stroke At last Nine. Sand,
through her son Maurice, formally demanded the
drama and it returned again to the portfolio of the
poetess. Borage, who was then Director of the
Odeon had heard of the drama, and prevailed on
Maurice TO show il to him. He perceived the ele-
ments of which lay in the piece went to No
baut and overcame the opposition of the Chateaine
BY reading it to her himself-showing her what he
could make oft. George Sand wept like child at
this reading; he had thoroughly comprehended her
hero; and she now believed in the dramatic effect OF
the Champ. She accepted some little changes de-
sired by Borage, and the Champ was played at the
Odeon with extraordinary success every evening all
Winter long. George Sand now turned her attention
to the drama again and, within the last five years.
Claudio Moliere. Les vacances de PandoIphe, lie
Marriage de yictorine lie Chemin du Foyer, lie Pres
sor, and Mauprat, appeared at short intervals. In
her later plays as well in her last romarces the vii
age stories have gained the ascendancy. During this
period the poetess has lived almost constantly at her
chateau in Berry, and her country neghbors naturally
appear among her poetic creations. The minor char
acters in all her village stories drawn from ma
ture and are true to nature, even TO the names.
Denis, in the Champ felt very much injured at be-
ing immortalized and complained bitterly about it.
Other countrymen proud to play part in the
books of their good friend; Benoit, the host of the
Red Oxen in La Chatre, desired to have the honor
shown him of being remembered in one of her ro-
mancss, even Il it should cost him hundred dollars.
George Sand heard of this ambitious WISH and full
filed ii by giving Benoit small part in her Mares
Sonneurs.
How dear Nine. Sand is 10 the inhabitants Of her
Province those alone form conception OF who
know to how great extent the renowned woman is
the guardianangel Of the suffering classes She hears
of DO undeseryed misfortune in her dear Province,
without interposing helping-hand. Her influence
has restored many victims of TIE Second Of Feb
ruary TO liberty; and her income is principally ex-
pended on poor families in her vicinity. She sends
her presents generally without letting it be known
from whom they come; but she cannot deceive any
body and always has to defend herself from the out
pourings of thanks that she receives from families
which she has remembered. But more than through
her rich EberaHty does she make for herself friends
by her advice, and, in time of need, her personal
aid. In the year 1890 was told by an intimate
friend of hers, on inmate of the Castle of Nohaut-
Nine. Sand sacrificed whole month to the care of
cholera-patients. She performed services for sick
women from which only the nearest relations do not
shrink while this friend performed the same offices
for men. She attended on several hundreds,
saved hundreds and hundreds died in her arms. She
understands Socialism to be the practical doctrine Of
the GOspel-and as such she practices il. The un-
fortunate have learned TO look to her. and they who
thirsty for consolation turn their steps to the Cha