- Title Pages
- Epigraph
- Dedication
- Introduction
-
Chapter One Her Father's Daughter -
Chapter Two The Importance of Being Marie-Aurore de Saxe -
Chapter Three Sophie Victorious -
Chapter Four Spanish Sojourn -
Chapter Five Sophie's Choice -
Chapter Six Enigma of the Sphinx -
Chapter Seven Convent and Conversion -
Chapter Eight Coming of Age -
Chapter Nine Pater Semper Incertus Est -
Chapter Ten Marriage and Motherhood -
Chapter Eleven Passion in the Pyrenees -
Chapter Twelve Ready, Set, Go -
Chapter Thirteen “Our Motto is Freedom” -
Chapter Fourteen George Sand Is Born -
Chapter Fifteen A Daughter Is Born -
Chapter Sixteen The Author and the Actress -
Chapter Seventeen Sons and Lovers -
Chapter Eighteen Mother Love -
Chapter Nineteen Liaison Dangereuse -
Chapter Twenty Broken Bonds: Solange and Chopin -
Chapter Twenty-One Collateral Damage and Lucrézia Floriani -
Chapter Twenty-Two Revolution and Reverberations -
Chapter Twenty-Three Coming to Writing -
Chapter Twenty-Four Confession of a Young Girl -
Chapter Twenty-Five The Art of Loving - Epilogue
- Select Bibliography
- Acknowledgments
- Index
Marriage and Motherhood
Marriage and Motherhood
- Chapter:
- (p.101) Chapter Ten Marriage and Motherhood
- Source:
- George Sand
- Author(s):
Elizabeth Harlan
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
This chapter focuses on the period in which Sophie and Aurore were invited to the country home of Angele and James Roettiers Du Plessis. The Du Plessis country home was a Louis XVI villa at Le Plessis-Picard, near Melun. Enchanted by the lushly landscaped park and the acres of meadows grazed by livestock from a neighbor's farm, Aurore immediately felt at home in the Du Plessis family. The feeling of comfort was reciprocal, and what began as a brief visit turned into an extended stay. Madame Angele, twenty-seven and prematurely gray, and seventeen-year-old Aurore took an instant liking to each other. Angele and James, whom Aurore soon took to calling mother and father, were a happy, caring couple, and the warmth of their family was irresistible to Aurore, starved as she was for domestic harmony.
Keywords: country home, Du Plessis family, Louis XVI villa, Le Plessis-Picard, Melun, domestic harmony
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- Title Pages
- Epigraph
- Dedication
- Introduction
-
Chapter One Her Father's Daughter -
Chapter Two The Importance of Being Marie-Aurore de Saxe -
Chapter Three Sophie Victorious -
Chapter Four Spanish Sojourn -
Chapter Five Sophie's Choice -
Chapter Six Enigma of the Sphinx -
Chapter Seven Convent and Conversion -
Chapter Eight Coming of Age -
Chapter Nine Pater Semper Incertus Est -
Chapter Ten Marriage and Motherhood -
Chapter Eleven Passion in the Pyrenees -
Chapter Twelve Ready, Set, Go -
Chapter Thirteen “Our Motto is Freedom” -
Chapter Fourteen George Sand Is Born -
Chapter Fifteen A Daughter Is Born -
Chapter Sixteen The Author and the Actress -
Chapter Seventeen Sons and Lovers -
Chapter Eighteen Mother Love -
Chapter Nineteen Liaison Dangereuse -
Chapter Twenty Broken Bonds: Solange and Chopin -
Chapter Twenty-One Collateral Damage and Lucrézia Floriani -
Chapter Twenty-Two Revolution and Reverberations -
Chapter Twenty-Three Coming to Writing -
Chapter Twenty-Four Confession of a Young Girl -
Chapter Twenty-Five The Art of Loving - Epilogue
- Select Bibliography
- Acknowledgments
- Index
