The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1904-07-14
GEORGE SAND

GEORGE SAND.
The grandmother OF George Sand on
the paternal side stands in her pedigree
as daughter of Marshal Sake and Mile.
Verrieres. The marshal brought her up
and when a pensiorer Of the King Of
France at Chambcrd, married her off to
Franceuil Dupin, son of fermier gem
eral of taxes, a lover of private theatre
Gals, Of Rousseau's works, and one Of
the handiest men Of his day, and the
most skilled in carving wood and maxi
ing furniture. On his death his widow
bought Nohant in Berry, a place with
plain roorny country house standing
lin about one hundred and seventy
acres Of rich land. She retired there
with an only son, who enlisted in the
army Of Italy that General Bonaparte
led, and married a camp-follower, the
daughter of a bird-fancier This wo-
man already had couple of children.
The whole party. with the addition Of
George Sand. when a child of Ave or
six, followed the division he belonged
to through Spain, the wife still singing
petits verres to soldiers. The grand
mother died daily as she brooded over
her sons mesalliance and the possible
fate Of his child. She took the child,
who had been named Aurore after her,
when the accidental death OF the faith
er orphaned her.
George in some respects never ceased
to be a daughter Of the regiment. She
inherited a gipsy love of freedom from
the mother, Of birds from the grand
father on the maternal side, her handf-
ness and artistic tastes from Franceuil
Dupln, her Heloisa temperament from
Mile. Verrierres as explained above, her
ear for music and her eye for a land
scape from the house of Saxony, with
traits and propensities Of King Angus
tus that gave her in some respects a
resemblance to Catherine IT.. In all her
portraits but one at the exhibition Of
the George Sand relics at the 0deon,
her Saxon ancestry is proclaimed.
That one is study, or pochade in oils,
by Delacroix, who gives her the most
splendid pair Of black eyes that ever
CLEANED In woman's head. They take
their color from her ancestress Aurora
Won Koenigsmark, whose portrait is
close by. 1t belonged to Marshal Sake,
who left 1t to his daughter, George
Sands grandmother. The expression,
however, differs. Aurora Won Koenigs-
marks bold, black eyes blaze. She is
an impudent creature. Before the MUIR
der at Herrenhausen of her brother
Philip she belonged to the coterie Of la
dies whom George /. took with him to
England.
She ceased, after Philips mysterious
disappearance, to live at Hanover, and
went to Dresden with the certainty. ess
her mind that he had been assassinated
by the Electors order, and to implore
Augustus to avenge the crime. The
latter thought she ought not to take
the matter au tragique, set her up with
a bijou palace, allowed her to give the
family rt me Of Maurice to the son des-5
tined to defeat the army of George II.S
and secured for her a great secularized
abbey in the Hartz district, where her
body lies habited in gorgeous robes.
The fire Of passion shoulders in the
dark eyes of her descendant, Aurore
Dupin, as painted by Delacroix ait the
outset OF her literary career as George
Sand. They have the unfathomable
depth of color of ancient Japanese lac
quer. One reads in them the possibility
of George Sand declaring, " Not Gaze
sar's empress would deign to prove"
etc, and acting on the declaration.
Her more elaborated portraits. done be-
tween the ages Of thirty-five and forty
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five, give the impression, and truthful
ly, of stolidness. The cheeks threaten
to become weighty, a threat they full
filled. She has big, prominent, recep-
tive eyes that remember mournful and
not unfrequently sullen. They might
have been the eyes of one who slept
and dreamt disappointing dreams with
Enclosed eyelids, and are rather bovine
than womanly. She had the patient la
boriousness of the OK, and seemed to
write novels without an effort, though
ploddingly, as German hausfrau knits
| stockings.
AS George Sand wrote plays for the
Odeon, the manager of that theater got
up in the green room the exhibition Of
souvenirs and likenesses of the great
WoiiioH' LIE ldtLSh oiAoW llSI AAoHl ~lIAS
age of six until the development of the
photograph. as we see it in one taken
the year of her death. The child if six
is in the robe bebe in which youthful
nfeces of Napoleon stood to eros, clus-
tering round Nine Murat, She resem-
bles her father, who had the same Koe-
nigsnark Saxon ceuntenance, but with
ian eighteen-century liVeIiness that his