Show FAMOUS WOMEN OF HISTO HIS TOR f. f V I GEORGE SAND BAND 1604 1876 I Copyright 1912 by Willis J J. J Abbot One must put In quotation marks tho the name namo Sand Band known wherever rom romance nce Is read and explain laboriously that the real name of the woman who bore it and mado made it famous Camous was Lu Lu- clIo cilo Aurore How th the woman whose books enraptured the world cameto cameto came camo to adopt a a. mans man's name namo for her bar nom do plume plum may well welt bo be told at the very opening open open- ing lug of this sketch of her career Mme separated from her husband and lUp supplied by him with an al allowance al- al lowance of a a. year for herself and two children was as living in tho the Latin LaUn quarter of or Paris and using her b best st en en endeavor en- en deavor to eke out that slender Income by 1 pain painting tins china writing for tor the Figaro at 7 l francs franca a a. column turning her hands and mind to anything she sho could do Her first months month's earnings In th tha practice of oC Journalism Jour amounted to 3 J. J Naturally V her circumstances decidedly straitened It was at thie time she sho adopted mans man's clothing not clothing not In any radical revolt against womans woman's garb but merely for reasons of ot economy Sh She She- tells tho the story mry herself In her autobiography My ly thin boots wore out In a a 3 few days I forgot to hold up my dress dres and cov coy covered ered my petticoats with mud I generally returned from the expeditions I took dirty weary and cold whereas where my tny young men acquaintances had none of these hese inconveniences to submit to I therefore had a long gray cloth coat made with waistcoat and trousers to match When tho the costume was completed by a gray ray felt hat and a loose looS woolen cravat no one could have guessed that I was WaB not a. a young student In my first year yur It was the real life me of a student of the quarter she sho led In those Bohemian days following her separation from her hus bus band Among Its incidents was a a. with one Jules with whom she shared tho the authorship of two books which created little stir sUr but Gerv served d her for tor a a. literary apprenticeship Tho The pair pall alof also alo f shared hated the same aarao garret In the easy going student quarter on the left bank of oC the Seine but this partnership was waa abruptly broken off oft when after a a. brief visit to the tho country he she returned to find her place occupied d b by a a. lady following the inartistic V V vocation of or a laundress The dissolution of ot tho literary I followed that of ot the more tender one It Is curious to consider the philosophy philosophy philos philos- ophy with which this was accomplished The Tho two novels written in collaboration bore the name of oC Jules Sand When MIne Mme went for her outing a new now novel nO was planned to b be called Indiana and which they were to write together When she returned with her share haro finished she found that Sandean had not touched pento pen pento to lo paper When he read her chapters he declared the book to be a a. masterpiece as 58 did the publisher to whom It was wu pre pro But what should be bo the name of ot tho the author Mme Ime was for tor the theold theold theold old partnership name but bul Sand Bandeau u. u though sadly Indiscreet with his laundress was waa still a man of or honor In literary af af- af fairs faire Ho Ha had written none of the book and would not accept even the slender fame famo that would accrue from the use o othe ot of the old nom de do plume So as It was St. St Georgos Georgo's day on which this discussion arose the publisher suggested sug that George be substituted for Jules and thus tho the name namo of ot George Sand was fixed upon ant and with It Mme conquered the world of ot letters Heredity may have played some part In Investing investing vesting George Sand with the singularly elastic code of ot morals under which she sho lived lived for for was waa neither the first I nor the last of her affinities Tho The bar sinister appeared In her ancestry her father being tho the son On of or an Illegitimate daughter of Marshal Saxe But one ono Is In In in- lined dined rather to ascribe her v ho the worthlessness of ot the mar to whom e uha WM was m S at it the of 18 In her liar ago earlier l ho tho girl sirl Aurore had lived grandmothers grandmother who was something of a. a thinker and was U educated by hyla a tutor having been a priest In youth come came a n devoted de follower of oC Rousi Roullet ho tho death of her grandmother aria and d n ute life with her mother molher Insupportable married marri d- d expecting expecting- little finding none Curiously enough h th tb t band band too wa was of or illegitimate paten paren Their life Ufo was nu miserable Ills IUs tatter for the hunt and the table Ho Ho wo gone rone for days chasing stags or ing ng pheasants On his return he spend most of or his time wi 1 fellow huntsmen on tho the o a Of chose and drinking deeply It U no io der det that a young wife wie whose surri surn Intellect roso rose above vulgar things repudiated repudiate him hIrn hr s 1 S Her married life ended when she ah definitely divorced from nor her hu hub this time she sho had written the hC nov novel novel- diana dlana laa and had ha become became ono one of ot loe tn th i of ot Parisian literary O tet society not paralleled anywhere It it brought her Into Int touch tuch with ee i Felix ps p's do MusseL Musset luse Chopin Copin wt B Arnold our own own American Y ler Gustavo Gustave and mori more o or great seat noted not minds of ot literature t than ca can a V V hs i o o Nothing In her early erly tr husbands husband's treatment In her la the tho Latin LUn quarter made for t morals morals to to which we Chopin Choln and arid do followed Sn Sta Th Tho h tender care Cre she took tok of Choi Italy Ity when h he was waa w slowly dying o 01 should su surely Jy A 1 blessed by churchly observance lY Writing in these thee later days wj cu cuso o Is 18 seldom eldom made for such George G re Sand was guilty of ot It Is la 1 ble his to explain adequately the U held In her time The greatest r f fa the moment forget her tier Liszt her Ch her de da Mussel They recognized herand her hen ler and forgot her morals Matthew Ai j jone one of the finest examples of the Q university prig said ead of her Her r rand pu and her errors errs have been be n abW talked of ot She left them h mens men's memory will wU leave leve them t also t TherA wilt will wi remain aso miring and ad over g widening g i report Pr of oI r. r great and ingenuous soul BOU i lonate without vanity without pe Dedi human equitable patient kind kind e Her books books books' They They- are ac many too many man to too to catalogue here hOTe Consuelo is fa th the one Indiana and andL La the next net In order orde of tat These are easily obtainable atlie at any a lie 10 library In in translations translation and d arl ar n better reading than some d novels of this decade In her hor later later years yera Georgo Ufo life Ideal Idel for tor the te literary worker f which helped to make makA up for tor or tie tudes of ot her youth Venice and knew her well wel welland routh and wherever be chew be wrote and wrote lote with wih an a Ind betokened love for tor or literary Jerr well as a the need of ot money to t. t toa her hor not simple tastes In a letter lete friend frend Louis Luis Aulbach In 1869 hi hiI I have earned ared about a million ml wt W writings she sho fhe refers to t francs beta beng bel i I have havo havo not put put away a sl II S IS I 1 have havo always lived lve from da day from th tho fruits of ot my labor labo a s aI sI I II I consider as a Insuring the most hi hiI Lp I thon then have no pecuniary anxiety is not fear robbers June 8 S 1876 G George oro Band nc Sad died de fully tuly and with wit her latter later ham accord wih her ber favorite plus do calme came Her Her were as quiet as her early Dearly one ones stormy About her er were gati gatZ g 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