Talk:George Sand

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The book "A World History Of Photography" by Naomi Rosenblum dates the portrait of George Sand by Nadar as 1877, not 1864. Which date is correct?

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[edit] Biography assessment rating comment

WikiProject Biography Assessment

The article may be improved by following the WikiProject Biography 11 easy steps to producing at least a B article. -- Yamara 05:30, 15 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Wiki French content Please

Hello,

At the bottom of the article there is a reference for the source:

This information has been sourced from the "3ème édition du Dictionnaire Encyclopédique de la Langue Française".

If you have the text in French, it will be good to put it into the French Wikipedia:

http://fr.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=George_Sand&action=edit

Cheers


[edit] Problematic dates

Chopin 's article suggets they met in Paris in 1836: Chopin's article says: In 1836 Chopin was secretly engaged to a seventeen-year-old Polish girl named Maria Wodzinska. The engagement was later called off. In that same year, at a party hosted by Countess Marie d'Agoult, Chopin met the novelist George Sand.

but here we read in 1831. I never liked the word meet. firstly met it should say. hopefully someone will check it out and fix it as appropriate

She left her husband in 2010? Well, at least he has four years to prepare himself.

[edit] buried where?

These two paragraphs:

She was interred in the Cimetière du Montparnasse, Paris, France.

George Sand died at Nohant, near Chateauroux, in the Indre département of France on June 8, 1876 at the age of 72 and was buried in the grounds of her home at Nohant. In 2004, controversial plans were suggested to move her remains to the Pantheon in Paris.

Seem to indicate that she's buried in two separate places ????

Re the above: I've left a note on the discussion page of the Cimetière du Montparnasse asking if anyone has evidence for the Montparnasse listing. My own research online concludes that she was buried at Nohant and that her remains have been there ever since. InvisibleSun 8/29/05
Deletion of Cimetière du Montparnasse sentence per the above. InvisibleSun 16:42, 21 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Clothing

Although her apparel may already take up too much space, the article omits the reason George Sand gives in Histoire de ma Vie. The cost of men's clothing was substantially less than women's clothing. After she separated from her husband she simply could not afford to maintain a wardrobe appropriate for a baroness. Durova 16:17, 8 November 2005 (UTC)

It also wasn't that unusual for a girl to wear vaguely masculine clothing and she spent much of her time in rural areas. She stuck with it into adulthood and that was vaguely unusual, but there are reasons you mention. Also her "transgenderness" is a bit exaggerated, sometimes by herself as well, as she enjoyed sewing and other "girly" things. I read a bio of her and some other things, but it's been years so I don't know if I could do much with this. Although I might expand portions concerning her early life at some point.--T. Anthony 05:57, 24 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Date of Birth

Hello - a quick google search and the timeline in my copy of "Him and Her" (US, Academy Press, 1978) both indicate George Sand's date of birth to be July 1, 1804. Do we have a reason for this different DOB? --Lizstless 07:13, 10 October 2006 (UTC)

The same in the the french WP ... template "verification needed" gone. -- DLL .. T 21:56, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Converted to Jewish faith

Could we have a source for this affirmation. It is quite doubtfull to me. Why would a woman from French high aristocracy seeking for complete unconformism (as proved by her subsequent way of life) convert to Judaism ? It does not fit the picture. Moreover I have noticed this information is does nor apprear in the French or even the Hebrew version of this Wikipedia article. -- Orecht 16:12, 30 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] writings notes

Could we get a summary of the themes she wrote about please? brain 05:00, 22 April 2007 (UTC)

I'm trying to add a couple of scathing remarks by Charles Baudelaire about George Sand, is that appropriate and if so in which section? My reasoning is that Baudelaire is influential/famous enough to be relevant. Also, I can't figure out how to get the citation to appear at the bottom of the article or even to be formatted correctly. Bigsatanloaf 19:02, 20 June 2007 (UTC)

Now formatted. For subsequent (or even prior) citations to the same source you can now just use <ref name = Baudelaire/> Kablammo 19:12, 20 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Antecedents and relationship

This article currently states: "Sand's father was ... a granddaughter of Maurice, comte de Saxe". This is clearly not right! Could someone clarify please: was she a granddaughter of the Comte de Saxe, or was her father a grandson? Haydn01 16:53, 2 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Looking for French-->English translators

Hi all, the French wikipedia has some articles up on relatives of Sand's that are red links here. Namely:

In addition, several of her works have articles in French too list here.

I hesitate to take a stab at these w/ my paltry command of French. But anyone who's willing and has some time on his/her hands would make a great contribution to this article. J. Van Meter (talk) 16:00, 26 February 2008 (UTC)

(i've listed Maurice and Marie-Aurore at the wiki translation project page. perhaps someone there will take them up. J. Van Meter (talk) 17:15, 26 February 2008 (UTC))