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Jul 1, 1804 — Jun 8, 1876· 71 yrs

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George Sand

Also known as: Amantine Aurore Lucile Dupin, Baroness Dudevant, Georges Sand

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Amantine Aurore Lucile Dupin, later Baroness Dudevant, best known by her pseudonym George Sand was a French novelist. She is considered by some a feminist although she refused to join this movement. She is regarded as the first French female novelist to gain a major reputation. - [Wikipedia]

former 6th arrondissement of Paris, France
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Early on the morning of August 19, 1946, I was born under a clear sky after a violent summer storm to a widowed mother in the Julia Chester Hospital in Hope, a town of about six thousand in southwest Arkansas, thirty-three miles east of the Texas border at Texarkana.

— from My life, 1917

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Devil's Pool

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"When Germain - a shy but handsome widower - is sent by his father-in-law to find himself a wife, he sets out on his journey with a heavy heart. The prospective spouse is said to be rich, with land and a tidy dowry. But Germain fears for the fate of his three angelic children - and for the state of his own bruised heart. Everything changes during his voyage - through a dark wood and around a haunted marsh - when Germain falls passionately in love with an impoverished young shepherdess. Should he follow his heart, and woo the girl he now loves? Or please his family by marrying a rich but disdainful widow?" "A love song to the French countryside - a romance of two simple hearts - The Devil's Pool is above all a paean to an antique language and way of life which, even by 1844, was being eroded by industrialisation and the inexorable expansion of a national identity."--BOOK JACKET.

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Laura

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"Love captures Paul Finley in, of all places, his own bedroom - literally waking him from his dreams. The night he discovers Laura Pettit standing at his windowsill, Paul is eleven years old, a boy naturally inclined toward seriousness, precociously adept at the art of watching the world without being watched. Laura is twenty-two, a fiercely passionate and independent poet already experiencing the first flickers of fame, a beautiful woman on the brink of seducing Paul's father. No matter, Paul is smitten. When she leaves him to rejoin the grown-ups' party downstairs, Laura issues Paul a wholly impossible command, one that will haunt and consume both of them for the rest of their lives: "Forgive me.""--BOOK JACKET.

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Œuvres complètes

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En introduction, histoire critique des oeuvres de Pascal, et inventaire descriptif des sources. En première partie, écrits biographiques, mémoires et témoignages du XVIIe siècle relatifs à Pascal et à sa famille. Oeuvres historiques de Gilberte Pascal et de Marguerite Périer. (jaquette).

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