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		Nohant was in the heart of Berry, and this meant the country and Nature.
		Nohant is situated in the centre of the Black Valley.
		George Sand had left Paris for Nohant, and is anxiously wondering how her poor Jules has passed this wretched day, and how he will go back to the room from which she had torn herself with such difficulty that morning.
	eserver.org /fiction/george-sand.txt (23969 words)

	Frederick Chopin: Nohant (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		in 1839, Chopin begins spending the summers in Nohant with George Sand.
		In the summer of 1841, Chopin again travels to Nohant where he writes opp.
		The summer of 1846 is his last visit to Nohant.
	www.dartmouth.edu /~music33/Mus33projects/nodes/Chopin/nohant.html (113 words)

	nohant (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Nohant was the estate in Berry of George Sand (Aurore Dupin, 1804-76).
		When the the cigar-smoking divorcee was not shocking Parisian society by dressing like a man and proclaiming her feminist and socialist opinions, she was at Nohant entertaining such luminaries as Balzac, Delacroix, Gautier, Flaubert, and Liszt.
		Nohant is located on the edge of the Black Valley, which she made famous in her last two novels, François le Champi (1848) and La Petite Fadette (1849).
	www.sjsu.edu /depts/english/nohant.htm (88 words)

	rabble columns
		Victor Hugo called her the greatest woman of the century; for the people of her village she was the good woman of Nohant; the world knows her as the writer George Sand.
		She was raised by her paternal grandmother at the family chateau in the Berry that would be the centre of her rich life.
		It was here in Nohant that her lover Frédéric Chopin came for seven years, and wrote nearly half his music.
	www.rabble.ca /columnists_full.shtml?x=35746 (669 words)

	GEORGE SAND - LoveToKnow Article on GEORGE SAND (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		From the free out-door life at Nohant she passed at thirteen to the convent of the English Augustinians at Paris, where for the first two years she never went outside the walls.
		She at once quitted Nohant, taking with her Solange, and in 1831 an amicable separation was agreed upon, by which her whole estate was surrendered to the husband with the stipulation that she should receive an allowance of 120 a year.
		Liszt, in after years when they had drifted apart, wrote of her: George Sand catches her butterfly and tames it in her cage by feeding it on flowers and nectarthis is the love period.
	82.1911encyclopedia.org /S/SA/SAND_GEORGE.htm (6334 words)

	Online edition of Sunday Observer - Business (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		She was to end it in 1876, at Nohant in Berry (Centre).
		Brought up in Nohant by her grandmother, Aurore Dupin was married at the age of eighteen to Baron Casimir Dudevant, by whom she had two children.
		Nevertheless, Nohant continued to be as much a Mecca of artistic meetings as before.
	www.sundayobserver.lk /2004/05/02/fea20.html (964 words)

	George Sand
		She invented a deity of her own, a mysterious Corambé, half pagan and half Christian, and like Goethe erected to him a rustic altar of the greenest grass, the softest moss and the brightest pebbles.
		From the free outdoor life at Nohant she passed at thirteen to the convent of the English Augustinians at Paris, where for the first two years she never went outside the walls.
		Only in her case religion must be taken in an even more restricted sense than Matthew Arnold's "morality touched by emotion." For her there was no categorical imperative, no moral code save to follow the promptings of her heart.
	www.nndb.com /people/409/000103100 (5929 words)

	CHAPTER XXIII.
		He declared that his patient showed no longer any symptoms of pulmonary affection, but was suffering merely from a slight chronic laryngeal affection which, although he did not expect to be able to cure it, need not cause any serious alarm.
		She resolved to undertake the task herself, but found she was not suited for it, at any rate, could not acquit herself of it satisfactorily without giving up writing.
		Nohant offered pleasanter conditions, a less austere retreat, congenial society, and resources in case of illness.
	www.globusz.com /ebooks/FrederickChopin/00000037.htm (3957 words)

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		As a young girl wildly romping with the peasant children at Nohant she discovered a joy in untrammeled rural life which was only to increase with years.
		At the proper age for beginning to fashion a conventional young lady, the hoyden was put in a convent, where she underwent some exalting religious experiences; and in 1822 she was assigned to her place in the "established social order" by her marriage at seventeen to M. Dudevant.
		Writing from Nohant in 1866 to him at Croisset, she epitomises her distinction as a woman and as an author in this playful sally: "Sainte-Beuve, who loves you nevertheless, pretends that you are dreadfully vicious.
	www2.cddc.vt.edu /gutenberg/etext04/snflb10.txt (20295 words)

	The Story Of George Sand
		At Nohant she was given over to her grand-mother, to be reared in a strangely desultory sort of fashion, doing and reading and studying those things which could best develop her native gifts.
		Coming to visit her at Nohant, he was revolted by the clownish husband with whom she lived.
		In the meanwhile, she was paying visits to her husband at Nohant, where she wrangled with him over money matters, and where he would once have shot her had the guests present not interfered.
	www.oldandsold.com /articles23/famous-people-29.shtml (6318 words)

	Bloomsbury.com - Research centre (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		After a convent education in Paris she returned to Nohant where her independent spirit was encouraged.
		She played an active role during the political upheavals of 1848, but disassociated herself from radical feminist attempts to get her elected to the National Assembly, as she was a reformist rather than a revolutionary at heart.
		The Athenaeum">Athenaeum mentioned her work in February 1833 with a mixture of moral outrage and admiration and from that point on she was widely read and reviewed in England, and very much a talking point in middle-class drawing rooms.
	www.bloomsburymagazine.com /ARC/detail.asp?entryid=109141&bid=9 (715 words)

	Caxtonian: May 2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		La Chatre is less than three miles from Nohant, the estate she inherited from her grandmother, one of whose ancestors had been a King of Poland and who was thus related to all the royal houses of Europe, including the French Bourbons.
		In her Nohant home, there was the piano, which had been used by her frequent visitors Liszt and Chopin.
		Indeed, much of George Sand is still present in Nohant: the lover of nature, the hostess, the practical homemaker, the diligent writer who wrote more than 60 novels, a number of shorter tales, many plays and essays, the woman of taste who greatly appreciated music and other arts, and the devoted mother and grandmother.
	www.caxtonclub.org /reading/2002/May/nohant.htm (1837 words)

	The New York Review of Books: THE TALK OF NOHANT
		However, George Sand's diary for October 24, 1853 (in the Bibliothèque Nationale) mentions an important discussion at Nohant on geology and kindred matters; and the novelist doubtless alluded to this conversation in a letter to her daughter Solange that has so far failed to come to light.
		For the tenor of that discussion may be further gleaned from Solange's reply to her mother early in November: "Emile is right to claim the orang-outang as his grandfather…." As Monsieur Georges Lubin observes, the Emile in question is Emile Aucante, the novelist's secretary.
		It would not be surprising if Darwinian ideas already in the air or adumbrated in the naturalist's early work were being discussed at Nohant, where not only the everinquiring novelist herself but her son Maurice, as well as members of their circle, were passionately interested in natural history.
	www.nybooks.com /articles/7543 (378 words)

	destination guide - Nohant - France (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		NOHANT, about 10km north of La Châtre on the main Châteauroux road, is where Sand, or Amandine Aurore Lucie Dupin as she was born, spent half her life.
		The Château de Nohant - not really a château but her very pleasant eighteenth-century country house - is open for quick guided tours (daily: July and Aug 9am-6.30pm; mid-Oct to Jan 2.30-3.30pm; rest of year 9-11.15am and 2-5.30pm; 35F/?3.34).
		Chopin's music is honoured in a week-long piano festival, Chopin chez George Sand, at Nohant and La Châtre towards the end of July.
	www.cityguides-worldwide.com /France/33406.htm (175 words)

	Will oil run out information online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Her invalid was her one thought, and for an active mind and body like hers, it must have been irksome to submit to the caprices of a moody, ailing man water well pump diy.
		He composed at Nohant, and she has told us all about it; how he groaned, wrote and re-wrote and tore to pieces draft after draft of his work.
		Rollinat, Delacroix and Sand have written abundant souvenirs of Nohant and its distinguished gatherings, so let us not attempt to impugn the details of the will oil run out legend, that legend which coughs deprecatingly as it points to its aureoled alabaster brow.
	will-oil-run-out.jebe.ipupdater.com (1223 words)

	Sand, George on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Portrait de George Sand peint par Auguste Charpentier exposé dans sa maison de Nohant Un hommage national sera rendu à Geo.
		Portrait de George Sand, peint par Auguste Charpentier et exposé dans sa maison de Nohant Un comité de soutien s'est const.
		Portrait de George Sand peint par Auguste Charpentier exposé dans sa maison de Nohant Les 37e Fêtes romantiques de Nohant.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/S/Sand-G1eo.asp (853 words)

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		We talked of her theatre at Nohant, where they act for her and for her maid until four in the morning.
		He had just returned from Nohant, and he was asked if it was amusing at George Sand's.
		One of the joys of the family, and also one of the delights of _dilettanti_,[51] was the painting of the scenery, the manufacturing of costumes, the working out of scenarios, dressing dolls and making them talk.
	www.lib.umd.edu /ETC/ReadingRoom/Nonfiction/GeorgeSand/chapter09 (5304 words)

	Sand G. English
		She was educated at a convent boarding school (1817-1820) and she returned to Nohant in 1820.
		For the rest of her life, Sand was committed to ideal of Socialism, which his friend Flaubert rejected in their dispute.
		fter the Revolution of 1848, she retired permanently to her country house at Nohant, where she wrote the novels of her third period (1848-1860), concerned with country life and the peasants, including 'François le Champi' (1848) and 'La Petite Fadette' (1849).
	www.maurice-abravanel.com /sand_george_engish.html (1437 words)

	CHAPTER XXVI.
		The chateau of Nohant, in which Madame Sand lived, is a plain house by the roadside, with a walled garden.
		The Chateau of Nohant is indeed, as Mr.
		Madame Viardot-Garcia declares that she was never at Nohant when Liszt was there; and Liszt did not remember having played on the terrace of the chateau.
	www.globusz.com /ebooks/FrederickChopin/00000040.htm (11532 words)

	SAND, GEORGE (1804-1876) - Online Information article about SAND, GEORGE (1804-1876)
		For the next ten years she lived at Nohant, near La Cha.tre in Berri, the country house of her grandmother.
		mistress when her life was threatened, and henceforward was installed at Nohant as factotum.
		She at once quitted Nohant, taking with her Solange, and in 1831 an amicable separation was agreed upon, by which her whole See also:
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /SAC_SAR/SAND_GEORGE_1804_1876_.html (5065 words)

	Churches ireland catholic information online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		TO GUSTAVE FLAUBERT Nohant, 7th April, 1873 I am writing to my friend General Ferri Pisani, whom you know, who HAS CHARGE at Chateauroux, to reserve you a carriage which will be waiting for you on the 12th, at the station, at twenty minutes past three.
		Certainly, he is no more envied by anyone than by me. Your two friends, Tourgueneff and Cruchard philosophized about that from Nohant to Chateauroux, very comfortably borne along in your carriage at a smart pace by two horses.
		I was consoled for it by strong drink, as the Muscovite had a flask full of excellent brandy with him.
	churches-ireland-catholic.xipyfi.ipupdater.com (1227 words)

	Novel landscapes - Los Angeles Times (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		One night, I had the Chopin menu, with shrimp in a pastry shell, then chicken bonne femme in wine sauce, local cheeses and apple tarte Tatin, served to the strains of a nocturne by the Polish composer who was Sand's lover.
		In the seven summers that Frédéric Chopin spent with her at Nohant, he composed half of his oeuvre, basking in Sand's care and encouragement.
		Sand rests in the family cemetery at Nohant, her tomb decorated with floral tributes from admirers.
	www.latimes.com /travel/la-tr-2georges8may08,0,5040498.story?coll=la-home-travel (2542 words)

	Famous Affinities of History - Volume IV By Lyndon Orr-Chapter 5 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Her natural brother, who was an officer in the army, came down to Nohant and taught her to ride--to ride like a boy, seated astride.
		When Merimee left Nohant, he was destined never again to see George Sand, except long afterward at a dinner-party, where the two stared at each other sharply, but did not speak.
		She expressed a yearning for the affections of the elder Dumas; but that good-natured giant laughed at her, and in fact gave her some sound advice, and let her smoke unsentimentally in his study.
	www.nalanda.nitc.ac.in /resources/english/etext-project/history/affinity4/chapter5.html (6257 words)

	La Maison de George Sand \| Museum/Attraction Review \| Nohant/La Chatre \| Frommers.com
		At the Château de Nohant, known today as La Maison de George Sand, the novelist learned the ways and thoughts of the peasants.
		At Nohant, George Sand staged theatricals, dramatizing several of her novels -- not very successfully, according to reports.
		Today, fêtes romantiques de Nohant are sometimes staged, with an impressive list of musical performers.
	www.frommers.com /destinations/nohantlachatre/A26114.html (303 words)

	The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters, by
		TO GUSTAVE FLAUBERT, at Croisset Nohant, 31 December, 1867
		TO GUSTAVE FLAUBERT 14 September, 1871, Nohant [Footnote: Appeared in le Temps, 3 October, 1871, under the title, Reponse a un ami, and published in Impressions et Souvenirs, p.
		TO GUSTAVE FLAUBERT, at Croissset Nohant, from the 28 to the 29 February 1872.
	etext.library.adelaide.edu.au /f/flaubert/gustave/f58g (1033 words)

	Chopin Lives On - piano concert review
		The château de Nohant offered an intimate setting for these series of concerts dedicated to the music of the famed composer.
		The concert was held in the Bergerie de Nohant overlooking large courtyard just across from the château.
		Since the entire estate is classified as an historic site, every effort has been made to keep the grounds just as they were a hundred and fifty years ago.
	www.pianoworld.com /Chopin.htm (1256 words)

	'My profession,' said George Sand, 'is to be free' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Visitors still flock to Nohant, the serene chateau in central France that was writer George Sand's family manse.
		The estate, recently subject to a loving and careful restoration, remains a shrine to one of the most accomplished, and memorable, women of the 19th century.
		It is a story of high drama and soaring ambition: Sand left her oafish husband to seek out the life of literary Paris in 1830.
	www.smithsonianmag.si.edu /smithsonian/issues96/dec96/georgesand.html (297 words)

	Schulers Books (Frederick Chopin as a Man and Musician - 116/151)
		In June, 1847, Chopin was making ready to start for Nohant when he received a letter from Madame Sand to the effect that she had just turned out her daughter and son-in- law, and that if he received them in his house all would be over between them [i.e., between George Sand and Chopin].
		Of the quarrel at Nohant, Franchomme gave the following account:- -There was staying at that time at Nohant a gentleman who treated Madame Clesinger invariably with rudeness.
		Of course, Chopin ought to have left her before she had recourse to the "heroic means" of kicking him, metaphorically speaking, out of doors.
	www.schulers.com /books/fr/f/Frederick_Chopin_as_a_Man_and_Musician/Frederick_Chopin_as_a_Man_and_Musician116.htm (1618 words)

	Events - 8th Chopin Festival in Nohant - Rencontres Internationales Frédéric Chopin
		Young soloists from fine French and foreign musical schools participate in master classes during the week and give a closing concert at the end of the Festival.
		Classes and conferences are held at the Théâtre de la Châtre, concerts are held in Nohant.
		All of his pieces which were composed or completed in Nohant will be performed during this year's eighth edition of Rencontres Internationales Frédéric Chopin.
	www.infochopin.pl /en/wydarzenia.php/386 (755 words)

	Miejsca - Nohant
		Chopin first came to Nohant in 1839 after leaving Mallorca.
		In Nohant he created nearly two thirds of all his works including a lion’s share of the works considered to be the most significant.
		He had to make his decision about leaving Nohant as his relations with George Sand chilled and were soon were broken off altogether.
	www.infochopin.pl /en/miejsca.php/43 (206 words)

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