Dudevant, MME

AMANTINE LUCILE AURORE, née DUPIN ("GEORGE SAND"), 1804-1876. French novelist, of high rank and great fertility. Her first books, Rose and Blanche, Indiana, and Valentine, appeared 1832; among the best are André, 1835; IMG:content-1214.jpg:[graphic] Spiridion , 1839; and the famous Consuelo , 1842. She wrote also plays, e ays, political articles, and several volumes of travel Madame Dudevant. and autobiography, as His to ire de ma Vie , 1854. Her Corre spondence , 1881-84, filled 6 vols.