It is between the walls of this late XNUMXth century mansione century located 30 minutes southeast of Châteauroux which George Sand wrote his greatest literary successes. She inherits the Domain of Nohant in 1821, on the death of his grandmother who had previously acquired it.
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George Sand spends most of her time in Nohant, a haven of peace in the Berry countryside which she particularly appreciates. The six-hectare park, classified as a remarkable garden, is conducive to very beautiful walks.
In the footsteps of George Sand
George Sand
Born Aurore dupin in 1804, at the dawn of a XIXe century of great artistic and intellectual richness, George Sand is one of the most prolific writers of her time. His work, consequent, contains more than seventy works, number of them having for setting the Berry who is so dear to him.
Very quickly separated from her husband, she emancipated herself from the social constraints that weighed on her. A fervent defender of women's rights, she shocked her peers by her obstinacy in wearing men's clothes and by the adoption, in 1829, of a pen name that has now passed on to posterity.
Her love life caused a scandal, her suitors being as numerous as they were famous.
The passion for the arts
George Sand receives the greatest artists of the XNUMXth centurye century. Of Chopin à Liszt, Delacroix à Flaubert, everyone crowded at the gates of Nohant and sat down at the table of this remarkable woman whose free and independent spirit fascinated them. Chopin, with whom she has a tumultuous relationship, has her own room upstairs.
If, in August, you were still in Nohant, we could carry out our old festival project in Châteauroux.
George Sand to Franz Liszt, May 30, 1844
Do not miss
Le puppet theater installed in 1847 where many rooms are held. Her son, Maurice, sculpts the heads of the characters on puppets that the novelist dresses herself.
