George Sand
1804–1876 · novelist · France
Arts and ideas34 years old in 1838
Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin de Francueil, best known by her pen name George Sand, was a French novelist, memoirist and journalist. Being more renowned than either Victor Hugo or Honoré de Balzac in Britain in the 1830s and 1840s, Sand is recognised as one of the most notable writers of the European Romantic era. She has more than 50 volumes of various works to her credit, including tales, plays and political texts, alongside her 70 novels.
Read more on WikipediaThe world around them · Paris, 1870s
- Who governs
- The Third Republic is new and fragile. Monarchists hold a majority in parliament until 1877.
- Everyday life
- Most French people still live in the countryside. Paris is being rebuilt along Haussmann's wide boulevards.
- Arts and ideas
- The Impressionists show outside the official Salon, and Zola is writing his Rougon-Macquart novels.
- Meanwhile
- Germany has just united under Prussia, and Japan is racing to modernise.
Their life in their time
- 1804
- 181410 years old
- 183026 years old
- 184844 years old
- 185248 years old
- 185248 years oldCézanne and Zola meet at school
- 187066 years old
- 187470 years oldThe first Impressionist exhibition
- 187571 years oldCarmen opens at the Opéra-Comique
- 187672 years oldDies
