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Believing Dudevant wealthy, she also felt secure in the knowledge that he was not marrying her for her money, although the situation was much more complicated than the young Aurore knew. Proposal: Aurore was pleased because Dudevant made his overtures first to her, rather than officially to her relatives. "That would have troubled our casualness," wrote Aurore. I ride, jump, and laugh with him just as I did with you!" They didn't court. Writing to her half brother, Hippolyte, Shortly after she met Casimir, Aurore joyfully expressed her happiness: "I have a comrade here, whom I like very much. Elegant but homely, Casimir captivated the young Aurore with his understanding and playful nature. Casimir was the illegitimate but acknowledged son of a baron, and his family owned an estate at Guillery, in the Gascon country. It was while visiting Du Plessis that Aurore met Casimir Dudevant. When her increasingly unbalanced mother tried to force her into marriage, Aurore went on a hunger strike and became ill enough for her mother to give in and send her to stay for a few days with an old army friend of her father's, James Roettiers du Plessis. After the death of Madame Dupin-Francuil, Aurore's mother unexpectedly reentered her life, laying claim not only to her daughter but to her daughter's possessions. Abandoned by her bohemian mother to the care of her haughty and strict grandmother, Madame Dupin-Francueil, the young Aurore had been raised in convent schools and the cloistered existence of the family estate at Nohant.
About the marriage between the famous French writer George Sand and Casimir Dudevant, history and account of the wedding.Ĭourtship: Ambrose Bierce once bitterly defined marriage as "a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two." While such a condition certainly would have had little appeal for a fiercely independent woman like "George Sand," it did promise companionship and security to Aurore Dupin.Īurore, later to become the famous and occasionally infamous "George," met Casimir Dudevant at a troubled time in her life.