Amantine-Lucile-Aurore Dupin 1804 - 1876, best known by her pseudonym George Sand was a French novelist and memoirist. She is equally well known for her much publicized romantic affairs with a number of celebrities including Frédéric Chopin and Alfred de Musset. She was known well in far reaches of the world, and her social practices, her writings and her beliefs prompted much commentary, often by other luminaries in the world of arts and letters. In this book: The Devil's Pool Mauprat