Escape with me to the small French village of Nohant, right in the heart of the Berry region of central France.
George Sand (Amandine Aurore Dupin) is the most celebrated French female novelist of the 19th century. She was famed not only for her writings, but for her love affairs (with poet Alfred de Musset, and with the composer Chopin) and for her radical political ideas.
The House of George Sand is in the village of Nohant, in the Indre department of France. In 1808, at just four years old, Sand lived there with her grandmother after the accidental death of her father. When her grandmother died in 1821, Sand inherited the small château from her grandmother and here she entertained literary and artistic friends, Balzac, Flaubert, Turgenev, Liszt and Delacroix.
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