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SAND, George (i.e. Armande-Aurore-Lucie-Dupin, Baronne Dudevant, 1804-1876). Autograph letter signed ('Aurore') to Emilie de Wismes, Nohant, 30 January n.y. [1823], 5 pages, 8vo, address panel ('à la préfecture Angers'), seal (small seal tear in 3rd leaf).
Advice to a schoolfriend on marriage, reassuring her about the discomforts of pregnancy ('[les] peines attachées à mon état'), on the problems of incompatibility of character and interests and on marital love: 'Je conviens que les contraryétés qui naissent de la diversité des goûts, des caractères, ne sont que trop réelles, dans la plupart des ménages ... il est absolument impossible de rencontrer une personne dont l'humeur et les goûts soient en tout semblables aux siens propres ... Quel supplice, quelle vie d'amertume, quand on s'unit a quelqu'un qu'on deteste! ... quelle source inépuisable de bonheur quand on obéit ainsi à ce qu'on aime'. Sand admits to having a sad view of marriage before she was united with Casimir [Dudevant, whom she married in 1821 and was to leave in 1830], concluding with gossip about various friends and their marriages.
Emilie de Wismes was educated with George Sand at the couvent des Anglaises, and from 1820-24 they corresponded frequently.
Advice to a schoolfriend on marriage, reassuring her about the discomforts of pregnancy ('[les] peines attachées à mon état'), on the problems of incompatibility of character and interests and on marital love: 'Je conviens que les contraryétés qui naissent de la diversité des goûts, des caractères, ne sont que trop réelles, dans la plupart des ménages ... il est absolument impossible de rencontrer une personne dont l'humeur et les goûts soient en tout semblables aux siens propres ... Quel supplice, quelle vie d'amertume, quand on s'unit a quelqu'un qu'on deteste! ... quelle source inépuisable de bonheur quand on obéit ainsi à ce qu'on aime'. Sand admits to having a sad view of marriage before she was united with Casimir [Dudevant, whom she married in 1821 and was to leave in 1830], concluding with gossip about various friends and their marriages.
Emilie de Wismes was educated with George Sand at the couvent des Anglaises, and from 1820-24 they corresponded frequently.
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