Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 February 1902 — Halzac's Picture of George Sand. [ARTICLE]

Halzac's Picture of George Sand.

In the published volume of his letters to Mme. Hanska, Balzac thus describes George Sami as he saw her in 1838: “I found her in her dressing gown, smoking an after dinner cigar beside the fire in an immense room. She wore very pretty yellow slippers with fringes, coquettish stockings and red trousers. Physically she has acquired a double chin, like a canon. She has not a single white hair, notwithstanding her terrible misfortunes. Iler beautiful eyes are still as sparkling as ever. When sunk in thought, she looks just as stupid as formerly, for. as I told her after observing her. the expression of her face lies wholly in iter eyes. “She goes to be,] at (1 in the morning and rises at noon. She is an excellent mother, worshiped by her children, but site dresses her daughter Solange in boy’s clothes, and that is not well. Site is like a man of 20, morally, fur she is innately chaste and artist only on the surface. She smokes to excess and/plays perhaps a little too much the great lady.”