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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
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. _____
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 ????
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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)
