Georges Sand in Palaiseau

This work retraces the life of George Sand in Palaiseau.
George Sand stayed in Palaiseau from June 11, 1864 to April 29, 1869.
Nothing better to evoke George Sand in Palaiseau than a contemporary testimony, due to Alexandre Dumas fils who inserted it in the preface to his play "Le Fils naturel". After having sketched in broad strokes "...this white house in the middle of a plain, at the foot of a hill, at the edge of a rutted road where from time to time a cart with plaintive axles laden with hay or of vegetables..." This scene dates from April 10, 1868.
It is in his novel Monsieur Sylvestre that George, through the voice of the main character, gives the most detailed description of his living environment in Palaiseau: "...In the foreground, that is to say beyond from the small garden that I enjoy, a vast osier grove separates me from the river. This jumble of fine, tight branches is of an indefinable tone. It is something between green and yellow which goes through all the shades. Florentine bronze and which always seems gilded by the sun, even when the sun is absent..."

Size: 15cm x 24cm
63 pages
Author: MT BAUMGARTNER
Year: 2000
ISBN: 2-9506603-3-9
Price: 8€