page_title: George Sand
section_title: Early life
hierarchical_section_title: George Sand / Early life
caption_attribution_description: Casimir Dudevant
context_page_description: Amandine Aurore Lucile Dupin, later Baroness Dudevant, best known by her pseudonym George Sand, was a French novelist and feminist.
context_section_description: Sand's father, Maurice Dupin, was the grandson of the Marshall General of France, Maurice, Comte de Saxe. He was also a distant relative of Louis XVI. Her mother, Sophie-Victoire Delaborde was a common woman. Sand was born in Paris. She spent much of her childhood with her grandmother, Marie Aurore de Saxe, Madame Dupin de Franceuil. Her grandmother lived in  her  estate, Nohant, in the French region of Berry.  She later used the setting in many of her novels. In 1822, at age 19, she married Baron Casimir Dudevant (1795–1871), illegitimate son of Jean-François. She and Dudevant had two children: Maurice  (1823–1889) and Solange (1828–1899). In early 1831 she left her prosaic husband and entered upon a four- or five-year period of "romantic rebellion." In 1835 she was legally separated from Dudevant.
caption: Casimir Dudevant in the 1860s
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