The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1876-06-09

Fontenoy, Marshal Maurice dc SAKE, natural son OF
Augustus H. King OF Poland, ana the beautiful coun-
tess Aurora Won K1nissmark. Her grandmother, nat
ural daughter of the Marshal being LETT the widow OF
the Hungarian Earl OF Horn, married the French no.
hlenlan Dupin de Franeueil provincial state Treas:
Her father, Maurice Dupn, Of whom she has pub
lished many charming letters IN her aisioire de ia
gie" died in 1905 nom fall horse. after hav
ing served with distraction in the republican and i'm
perial armies. Her maternal grandfather was dealer
In BIRDS she spent her childhood at the OF No
hant La Chatrc the ancient province OF Berry.
There she received her earliest education from Nine.
Dupin her grandmother When still n child she IN
vented endless stories her tender youth being nearly
absorbed by the composition OF colossal romance
which she never wrote but whose hero, Coramb half
pagan. half Christian the ideal o. her Dreams and
10 whom sno erected, in her mind and heart
beautiful altar Just Goethe did TO Light Old legends
told by grandmother and other ladies' during
the long lights mad great extent developed
that Unborn preiisposItion of young Aurora AS she
lived retired place in the country she fond OF
the poetry be drawn from rural scenes and having
nobody else to play with but peasants children. she
dreamed OF absolute community and perfect equality.
She retired within walls OF convent possessed
that time lSlIlS-0l by the English Sisters OF ST.
Augustine, Rue des Posses ST. Victor Paris. Once
the vi the Assumption, when she had accomplished
her hhecnth year. am ardent devotion to The Sacred
Heart ot Mary replaced, IL By maggie her heretofore
precocsous scepticsm AMI she resolved 10 take tho
vel
Her confcssor who was a Jesuit father and intel
lgent perceived that his pentcnt spite OF
present Appearances, was no more ST. Ihcrese than
he himself was Quaker, and with tact and knowledge
ui the human heart the reverend father succeeded
The course oil iow months curing forever Aurora
Dupin of her religicusc fever.
In 1920 she returned Nohant where she closed the
eyes OF her grandmother in death in the winter OF The
following year.
The study Of the works or Jean Jacques Rousseau
decided her inclinatops EMILE the ..Iettrcs de
Montaigncn and the '.Contrnt Social entranced her.
Her conessor having severely demonstrated with her
on the Impcty OF such study AS that Of Rousseau's
works she seeded at aud forever from the Cath
Die Church. In III. meantime her mind underwent
quite transformation The ''moraliss'' having de-
strcycd her Illusions she became imbued with strong
taint OF Rcnes melancholy. Soon after Byron shook
what st renamed OF hor former ideal, ana Shake
spearo gave II tho coup dc grace.
Having returned under the contro! of her mother,
she had daily contend with irritable temper
and order to escape the maternal petty tyranny she
married in ls.2 when only eighteen, Baron Dudcyaut
OF officer OF tho Imperial Guard by
whom The had two children. son and u daughter
Although she very likely was unit Tor conIugu, life as
understood IL society lin France especially let it be
SAID here, in order TO vnd:catc her memory from the
many malicious imputations circulated by her
miles, that Baron budcvant should have been the last
man TO marry such a superior woman Addicted 10
drink and gambling, he soon disspased his own Tor
tuuc and his wifes marriage portion, so that she
amiably parted from him in 1881, and went 10 Paris
with her daughter, purposng to use her remarkable
enough to provide Tor her wants and those OF her
children She set to work with energy, translaing
foreign romances, drawing portraits and painting M
rroscopic flowers aud birds snun boxes and rose.
wood cigar Ia order TO enjoy more freedom in
the French capital and above all TO attend The great
theatrical performances OF that time without beng
exposed TO improper remarks, she resumed The male
apparel which she had SO long worn IN her
childhood, and soon became popular among
artists and literary people. But she had stl many
hard rebukes encounter before laying the stone
OF her fame. NJ. do Kera,ry prominent novelist ard
o.
dnced, disdainiuiy told her that "a woman
wrltc.n Buzac himself, the great Baxac did not pay
much attention TO her literary projects strong and
powerful was the general prejudice against female
welcomed her with sympathy and accepted her
buttons To his paper This Was her debut IN literature
being then nearly twenty-elght years old She thea
undertook To compose her first novel, "Rosc ct
Blanche, y with Mr.. jules Sandcau, FROM whom she
took aud ever since retained her how illustrous
Tie plume, George sand INDIANA which she wrote
and published in 49, caused quite sensation IN the
literary world soon "a. ai'crward came ~ lcnIinc,"
romans de aidars ever published
She then started on tour through Italy In company
with Alfred do MusseL She came back TO Franco in
1851 and, Ia series oi romances, completed by The
Letters Of Traveller published her "lta;an I'M
pressons- jacques, Andre" ''Lconc, slconl,n
..simon' (lS35 1880 are nearly entirely devoted to
the land o, Ricnz Marino- Faliero and Masanclo In
1896 her relations with her husband became than
ever and decree oi the TrlluEalCvil granted her e
gal separation from hun and gave her the exclusive edu-
cation OF their Two children She then visited Swltzer-
hand twhcnce she returned just IN time TO her
mothers last brcath) and fell in love with the great
composer Frederic Chopin. with whom she spent
eight years, and who accompanied her 10 Aa)orca in
ls3s From 1883 10 1855 she had contributed largely
tho Rerae DIES Dcur- Moadcs Alter the production
OF pauline in The same periodical (lSIl) she broke
at once her relations with IT, because director
fused 10 print another romance OF hers lsHoraces)
upon the ground that u immoral
The Revolution OF lSiS excited George Sands mind.
She threw herself with the utmost ardor
u,ionary movement She contributed 10 rnc socialist
egan, Ia COMMUNE de Paris. with Barbes, robrcr and
cahaisnc
However busily engaged she then in politics. sno
mad not hidden arcwe 70 art but sudden taste Tor
dramatic compositions bad taken possession Of her
mind. Her nrst play, ''Cosna la Hainc dams
failure lis4s): lie RoI Attend" si9l had the same
late; but Francois 10 Chaupi and "Claudc,' played
at the odeon (ls49-1s5ll were two trumphs One OF
her works, 'Ellc ct LuI," was directed against tho
memory OF Alfred dc Mu-sei, and severely
sulcd By his brother in the BOOK ''Lu Ct Ellie /"
lndcatlsabc, III spite OF the most painful domestic
TRIALS shc had successfully lost her beloved daughter
one grandson and her only neicel George Sand, who
had prelJed her third style with lies DANES Vcrtcs"
Ac., brought out in 1861 lie Marquis dc vicmer y
mastery work Mlcrward cainc y a.vedrc " LA
tnc'' llso3, religious and philosophical romance,
expressly written win tue purpose OF rciutng Octave
Feuiett's mystic theories embodied IN his "Hstogc
de Ia sbyllc." George sands next ks partly pub
llshed inst in tho Rctus dcs Deur Noaoss combine
all the bloom lvclincss ana suavty OF youth with the
maturity OF genius and exquisite purity OF style
Her remarkable preiaces TO jean jacques Rous-
scau's confessions, TO obermann and TO wer-
tncr, well her notes many French
and foreign authors, and series OF essays d,ercut
matters of art, science and LITERATURE * well arti-
~ cfitlC-Hi sOiHc Itcfary poutcai reviews
Are worthy OF note. In 1885, she was Entrusted by
Emic tiirardin and Nclizcr with Tho literary editor
ship OF The PresSs and Ia that capacity vol
Gmcs OF articles under the unpretcntous title OF
.Auiour de Ia Table. y Al the same time she was Gu
gagged on the Courier de Paris series OF letters
entitled Courier du Village
After tho example of many iusrious public
men OF this century George Sand was induced 10 write,
Ia 1854, jenastetoa the journal La fvesss, her
''Memoires, Y aiierward published ia Volumes
When The disastrous war OF 1870 broke out George
SAND wrose, from Nohani where she had resided Tor
peace wnusc continuance alone would allow humanity
TO solve tho social problems at hand and to
cirate iiscli finally from the double headed poitco
religious yoke OF KINGS and prcsts."
But the word belonged 10 swords aud guns, and. nj
though her own region escaped Bsmartks hosts. she
had the sorrow OF witnessing The third her