- 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
Mother Love
Mother Love
- Chapter:
- (p.191) Chapter Eighteen Mother Love
- Source:
- George Sand
- Author(s):
Elizabeth Harlan
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
This chapter discusses the meeting of George Sand and the then young Polish composer Frederic Chopin. With the looming threat of the Russian occupation, Chopin fled Poland and arrived in Paris in 1831, the same year Aurore Dudevant went to the capital to launch her literary career. Among the other distinguished guests at the soiree were Giacomo Meyerbeer, Eugene Sue, Heinrich Heine, and a group of Polish exiles associated with Adam Mickiewicz, who would shortly become a professor at the College de France. Although Sand was immediately taken with Chopin, the relationship got off to a slow start. “I've made the acquaintance of a great celebrity, Madame Dudevant, known by the name George Sand,” Chopin wrote his parents several days after their meeting. “But her face doesn't appeal to me at all. There's even something about her that puts me off.”
Keywords: literary career, Frederic Chopin, Russian occupation, Poland, Aurore Dudevant, Giacomo Meyerbeer, Eugene Sue, Heinrich Heine, Adam Mickiewicz
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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
