New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-08-31
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
HER STATUE AT LA CHATRE AND HER
HOME AT NOHANT.

unworthy OF her mnae r. was got up by the Mayor
OF that town, who wanted TO give himself promi-
noncc and 10 obtain n decoration. A. La Chatre
George Sand was held, through the greater part Of
her literary career in holy horror, was often booted
at, and was once rcltcd with stones. The old
leaven OF bourgeois luminosity towards her is yet
strong m that pretty itte town. on the outskirts
of which she resided part of the time She was at
law with her husband Her father was killed near
La Chdtre by n fall from horse. so that she had
many disagreeable and few pleasant memories con-
nceted with the place The day before the
celebration, fear was entertained that ire
"PhilIstIne" population might lie led by TIER
wish to vindicltc " the proprlrties which Mad
ame Sand outraged in her younedays and indeed
in the prime of life asO--to mutiate the
beautiful statue of her which Ailn6 Mil
let has executed. He represents her seated
with one foot over the other and the
fore finger OF one hand in a nearly closed book
and pen IN the other hand. Her skirt and KIN d
Of Arab pepum or Gopdoardh which covers the bust
but leaves the arms bare. drape her amply and
gracefully. The pose is natural and the resemblance
to the novelist striking. Ain6 Mlet represents
her as what he couceIves her TO have been at the
age of forty.
There were not many notable pcrscnages at
the celebration. NJ. de LessepS, being
IN the neighborhood and member
of the Academy presided. Some literary ladies
came in representative capacity. Nine Henri
Grevie who is stout, short, plain and oingularly
prosaic-at least in appearance,-was one Inc
other was from Italy. NJ Ars6pe Houssaye-a man
who would if he could drown the fragrance Of
sweetbriar in opPoponax, and who gives to all the
fine ladies he writes about the physiognomies OF
courtcsans-vas the chief speaker. Madame Adam
was prevented 10y her mothers death from coming,
Victor Hugo by his great age aud a care for his
health Jules Claretie by business at Versailles,
and Eugene PeetOn by his duties as ques'or
Of the National Assembly. Prince Napoleon, too,
was among the absentees. He was very intimate
FREUD OF George Sand and took her son Maurice On
| a trip 10 Iceland. He was, in frce-thought sort
of a way the godfather of her eldest surviving
granddaughter Aurora, who is now grown up and
pretty, sprightly- looking young girl Gabrielle,
the second grand daughter, is also very charming
rosebud. They were, along with their father.
mother and Aunt Solango widow Of Clesenger, the
sculptor at the unwilling OF the statue. This core
mony was bright noisy and had l4th-oi-July air.
Berri is no a tourists province great part of
IT is aat aud DOGGY The canton in which Nohant
| Is situated is rich and rolling table land
A wood shelters from the northern blasts
an alley which favOrte walk
of George Sand in her old age II borders little
| pond near which she had turf scat The over
| plus water flows across dam which she and her
stcp-brother constructed when they were children.
George Sand all hr life fond of going and see
ing the moOus rays reflected on this little cascade.
which she said in letter to flaubcrt, seemed to
her to be carrying away diamonds from the pool.
Her grave is at the verge of the churchyard and the
garden and marked bv Hat stone on the top of
green mound. The inscription gives her maiden
name Lucille Aurore Amautne Dupin" her mar
ricd name. Baroness Dudevant," and her assumed
name. George sand" which she took because her
mothcr.iu-law had requested her not to
disyrace the second one by aitXing
il to newspaper articles aud novels.
An English nun was the teacher of Aurorc Dup.n
AZ the Convent dcs Anglaiscs in tho Rue ST. Jacques
and used to tell her about her patron saint OF Merry
England who slew tho dragon. The imaginative
/ pupil was led TO invoke him a. n patron. She
| Thought him u chivalrous hero, lttlo suspcctlng
that he was a rocush army contractor. His name
came back % her after she had run away from her
I'm band from Nohaut 20 Paris, 10 lead an ndc-
pendent life.
sand was half the name of Jules Sandeau, to
whom she ran aud with whom she lei Bohemian
life until she threw him OF to make trial Of the
poet De Mussrt which ended IN a bitter quarrel.
tie grew to hate her and published an attack on
her m one volume. IT was entitled Lui ct Elle'
or lie and She :" and led Ler to write Ellie ct
show that she was not a cold vampire,
vino, when she had ruined him physically
and morally. cast him ASIDE and took up with We
nrti.n doctor Her story was that he had hyper
s.u,ltlvcucrves which he utterly destroyed with
drink and that she left MIN las she always told
him she should DO were her experiment faiure
because il was impossible for her to love HIM or
to feign that passion. Perhaps there was truth IN
both the indictment and the defence There are
some natures winch in youth 90 through period
of very active fermentation. TO become IN after
life mellow and generous, like fine wine. George
Sands was one of these. All the peasants about
Nohant. IN her old age, called her " la Bonnie
Dame' or " the good ladv." Her son, to whom she
had ever been a tender and watchful mother, yene-
rated her; his wife and children adore her memo
~ and loved her when she was with them. and she
had TO the last numerous friends who held her in
attectlOuate regard Some oi them were old lovers,
others were platOnic admirers and sympathZers. She
used 10 call Dumas MS hrr son LOUIS bIahc, lcor
HUGO, the negrophlle Schnlcher, Emfnanuel SudgO,
Dupont de Bussac, NJ. Brisson, Charles Edmond the
EVptOlOgIst; Paul Meurlce, Nacquerle, Anne
Allllet and Miet the rural painter, ENJOY ed her
frieud,h D to the end, and sne theirs. Nine. Adam
and Jules Claretle were latter day friends. VI. de
Lessons only knew her 81 Chilly, and after he
married second time lie was warm admlrrr OF
her genius and called two Of his second batch OF
children Consuelo and solange, after characters In
George Sand did not when young, generally agree
with persons 10 whom abe was attached closely Oy
laws of convention or nature. No sooner did she
gain the love of than she tossed him OF. Her
answer to those who blamed her that the ideal
she had formed was 50 different from the reality
that She cou d not do otherwise. Her husband
dense od-natured and coarse swas -buckier. He
also drank As she silent and moody even
with those she loved. her cOmpauionship did not
tend to elevate him from his military ways. VI.
Edmond About IN giving me his impressions of her,
said She was dull dull, dull, to an unlmaVlnaDle
degree only saw her when she was very old
woman and though she was taclturn she did not
STRIKE me as being stupid in manner
In society she took In and rarely gave ONT.
The hin black ewes stared and absorbed.
She had healthy waxen complexion and
ptetty little sunburnt hands, for she never
nnnnLlI rnnr rlnYea Tho eff OF CON prsatlnn