- 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
Liaison Dangereuse
Liaison Dangereuse
- Chapter:
- (p.202) Chapter Nineteen Liaison Dangereuse
- Source:
- George Sand
- Author(s):
Elizabeth Harlan
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
This chapter recounts Solange's engagement to Fernand de Preaulx and her presentation to the thirty-three-year-old sculptor Jean-Baptiste Auguste Clesinger by her mother Sophie. Over the course of several sittings, Clesinger not only sculpted Solange's bust, he also captured her heart and won her hand. By the end of the month, Solange had called off her engagement to Preaulx, and on 19 May 1847 she and Clesinger were married. Despite the broken engagement and precipitous replacement, Sand was decidedly in favor of her daughter's marriage to Clesinger. Sand recounts their romance as a fairy tale, in which Clesinger plays the role of Prince Charming and her daughter, Sleeping Beauty—whose passion is awakened with a kiss.
Keywords: Solange's engagement, Fernand de Preaulx, Jean-Baptiste Auguste Clesinger, broken engagement, precipitous replacement, fairy tale
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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
