Letters of George Sand Author:George Sand Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: costs involved in translation and the purchase of copyright, her works have secured publication in all the principal modern languages. The work of translation... more » and revision has been greatly facilitated by the collaboration of Mr. P. Varnals, whose assistance in his literary labours the translator has had previous occasion to recognise. In revising the MS. and proofs of TliQ Germans, translated from the French of Father Didon. Loxdon, January, 1886. chapter{Section 4Of New York, BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH. Amantine Lucile Aueoee Dodevant, ne'e Dupin, known in literature under the pseudonym of Geokge Sand, was born in Paris on the 5th July, 1804, the year of the coronation of the first Napoleon as Emperor (16 Messidor, year xii., the last of the Eepublic). Her father, Maurice Dupin de Francueil, was the son of M. Dupin de Francueil, a gentleman belonging to a family of noble but not exalted rank, and holding the position of Receiver-General for the Duchy of Albret. M. Dopin de Fraucueil lived at the castle of Chateauroux, on the banks of the Indre, where, on the 13th of January, 1778, a son (Maurice) was borne to him by his second wife, Marie Aurore de Saxe, a natural daughter of Maurice, Count of Saxony, Duke of Courland and Marshal-General of France; the last-named title, previously held only by Turenne and Villars, together with a vast estate and a yearly pension of 50,000 livres, being bestowed by Louis XY. as a mark of his gratitude to the hero of Fontenoy. Marie Aurore de Saxe had been previously married to the Count of Horn, a natural son of Louis XV., and Lieutenant- Governor of Schelestadt, in the province of Alsace, who died at a very advanced age only three months after the marriage. Maurice de Saxe was a natural son of Augustus IT., Elector of Saxon...« less