Amandine-Aurore-Lucie Dupin (pseudonym George Sand), was a French novelist born in Paris in 1804. She had many open liasons with prominent figures and was politically active as well. She is best remembered for her novels: "Lettres d'un voyager," dealing with her life with Musset, and among others, "Un Hiver à Majorque," her recollections of Chopin. Sand died in Nohant in 1876.