Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 November 1901 — Balzac's Picture of George Sand. [ARTICLE]

Balzac's Picture of George Sand.

In the published volume of his letters to Mine. Hunskii, Balzac thus describes George Sand as he saw her In 1838: j “I found her in her dressing gown, smoking an after dinner cigar beside the tin* 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 while hair, notwithstanding her terrible misfortunes. Her beautiful eyes are still as sparkling ns ever. M hen sunk in thought, site 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 (1 in the morning and rises at noon. She is an ex-' celleut mother, worshiped by her chil- 1 dren, but she dresses her daughter 1 Solange in boy’s clothes, and that Is I not well. She is like a man of 20, I morally, for she is innately chaste and artist only on the surface. She smokes to excess and plays perhaps a little too much the great lady.”