Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 May 1902 — Balzac's Picture of George Sand. [ARTICLE]

Balzac's Picture of George Sand.

In the published volume of his letters to Mme. Hanska, Balzac thus describes George Saud as he saw her In 1838: “I found lß*r In her (Tressing 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. Her 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 her eyes. “She goes to bed at 0 In the morning and rises at noon. She Is an excellent mother, worshiped by her children, but she dresses her daughter Solange In boy’s clothes, and thaV la not well. She is like a man of 20, morally, for she Is Innately chaste and artist only on the surface. She smokea to excess and plays perhaps a little too much the great lady.”