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(George), the pen name of Amandine Lucile Aurore Dupin , afterwards barone Dudnevant , French novelist, b. Paris, 1 July, 1804, and brought up by her grandmother at the Château de Nohant. Reading Rou eau and the philosophers divorced her from Catholicism. She remained a Humanitarian. Married Sept. 1822, Baron Dudnevant, an elderly man who both neglected and ill-treated her, and from whom after some years she was glad to separate at the sacrifice of her whole fortune. Her novels are too many to enumerate. The Revolution of ’48 drew her into politics, and she started a journal and translated Mazzini’s Republic and Royalty in Italy , Died at her Chateau of Nohant, 8 June, 1876. Her name was long obnoxious in England, where she was thought of as an a ailant of marriage and religion, but a better appreciation of her work and genius is making way.