In 1821, she inherited Nohant, and a year later married Casimir Dudevant. Nevertheless a collection of her personal writings, under the title Intimate Journal - taken from the French Journal Intime - were published in English in 1929, and have been reprinted several times since then.Īmandine Aurore Lucie Dupin was born in 1804, in Paris, and educated at Nohant, her grandmother’s estate, and at a convent in Paris. Her commitment to the diary form was, however, intermittent. A hard working and prolific author of novels, she also wrote plays and an autobiography. George Sand, the famous French writer, cigar smoker and lover of artists, died 140 years ago today.
