Gossip Girl invades Yale in TV event of the year Oct 25, 2008
Serenas grace under pressure: When Blair switched out Serenas answer for the Deans parlor game, switching George Sand for Peter Fairman, it was a little batshit time number two that Blair tried to ruin Serenas future. Thank God Serena is perfect. (Yale Herald, CT)
Let's get physical Sep 14, 2008
She has appeared as a beautician, an actress obsessed with Mary Magdalene and avant-garde novelist George Sand. She weathered her looks to play the down-and-out artistic heroine of Les Amants Du Pont-Neuf (Lovers On The Ninth Bridge), she learnt to make chocolate for the film adaptation of Joanne Harris's sticky-sweet bestseller and she teased the camera with smiles and smouldering looks to advertise perfume. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
GOP Speaking Lineup Revealed Sep 4, 2008
Location: CA Reply # 1 Date: Sep 3, 2008 - 7:48 PM EST Subject: Welcome George Sand With a name like that I can't help but like you (conservative or not. . (Townhall.com)
Byron and the Byronic Aug 5, 2008
From Goethe, Pushkin, Stendhal, Heine, Balzac, Scott, Carlyle, Mazzini, Leopardi, Berlioz, George Sand, and Delacroix down to Flaubert, Tennyson, Ruskin, the Bront. s, Baudelaire, Becque, Nietzsche, Wilde, and Strindberg, one can scarcely name a writer who did not come under the spell of Byronism and turn it to some use in his own life or work. (The Atlantic Online)
What killed 19th century composer Frederic Chopin? Jul 30, 2008
He also never fathered any children despite sexual relations with several women, including a famous relationship with the French writer George Sand, a mother of two children by her husband. Although Chopin's death certificate says he died of "tuberculosis of the lungs and the larynx," the doctor who treated him, Jean Cruveilhier, said that his death was caused "by a disease not previously encountered," according to historical documents cited by Dr. Witt in his paper. (Globe and Mail -- International)
The Real Venice Jul 29, 2008
I decided to retire to the roof terrace atop the fabled Hotel Danieli, occupying a 15th-century palazzo where authors George Sand and Charles Dickens stayed. But my gin and tonic cost $30, and a pigeon stole one of my hazelnuts. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Travel)
In Poland, Chopin's heart may hold secret of his death Jun 22, 2008
Cichy also pointed out that despite a passionate romance with flamboyant French writer George Sand, Chopin had no known children, suggesting infertility -- another telling clue. And few cystic fibrosis sufferers live past 40. (Yahoo! Asia News)
Frederica von Stade sings Pauline Viardot Mar 23, 2008
The narration followed a chronological timeline of Viardot's remarkable career, from her musical "boot camp" childhood to her dispassionate marriage to her friendships with Chopin, Delacroix, Berlioz, George Sand and especially Turgenev. Much, perhaps too much, was made of Viardot's long connection to the Russian writer. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Meet Viardot Mar 16, 2008
Her intellectual gifts - she spoke six languages fluently - brought her the friendship of many of the leading cultural figures of the day, including Chopin, Liszt, George Sand, Delacroix and Dickens. Gounod and the poet Alfred de Musset both declared their love for her. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Click for Full Story Feb 4, 2008
Thought for Today: "No human creature can give orders to love." -- George Sand, French author (1804-1876). (Source: Associated Press). (KWTX.com, TX)
Unlock the voicesof the Arab street Jan 14, 2008
What a bittersweet twist on the gender play of writers like George Sand or George Eliot and others who adopted male names, personae and wardrobes to splinter taboos. Here was a Saudi man pretending to be a woman so that he could impress upon his countrymen how difficult it was to be female. (Globe and Mail)
Keeping a French tradition Dec 30, 2007
Et voila, he soon had a museum filled with sepia-toned etchings of American Indians with pipes and cool photographs of famous smokers such as writer George Sand, whose tobacco habit became a symbol of emancipation for a generation of women. Hadengue is worried that France, with its dedication to the beauties of theoretical purity, will root out smoking from the culture with every bit as much vehemence as it has long defended it. (Los Angeles Times)
Frozen Florian Homm Funds Hit by Deception of Investors Lured to Majorca Oct 27, 2007
Poet Robert Graves, composer Frederic Chopin and writer George Sand have all lived there. Homm bought a five-story mansion in Establiments, a hilltop village outside Palma. (Bloomberg)
The piano maker Pleyel changes its marketing tune Oct 11, 2007
s of piano manufacturing," he added, referring to the French maker of luxury scarves and handbags. Pleyel is banking on a new grand piano, the P280, that is 2.8 meters long, or 9.2 feet, to put the company's instruments back into concert halls. Two of the P280s, with a price tag of more than 100,000, or $141,000, have been sold in Japan, and one in China. Its classic baby grands start at 30,000; those decorated by artists like Marco del Re begin at 80,000. By comparison, a concert grand made by... (International Herald Tribune)
Last French Piano Maker Stakes Survival on Red Spruce, Mammoth-Tusk Keys Oct 10, 2007
In the following summers, Ignaz Pleyel's son Camille shipped a piano to the house of French writer George Sand, Chopin's lover, in Nohant, France, where the composer wrote several mazurkas. Chopin Waltz. (Bloomberg -- Europe)
Gustave Flaubert Sep 22, 2007
His correspondence with George Sand was published in 1884. Although he became very bitter with life, he brought a new awareness of structure and form to the novel. (Suite101.com)
'Becoming Mona Lisa': A historian talks about an artwork made pop icon Jul 25, 2007
Giorgio Vasari, Leonardo's near contemporary, never saw the painting but in 1547 did mention the smile ("more divine than human"), giving it less space than her eyebrows (whose sparseness later dismayed Stendhal and George Sand). The sitter, he explained, was Lisa, the wife of Francesco del Giocondo. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
An inspector calls Jul 7, 2007
He was a traveller, a courtier, an Academician, friend of Stendhal, lover of George Sand, truffler of the sexual low-life, and a senator under Napoleon III. But his true, if largely forgotten, claim to enduring fame is as the second Inspector General of Historic Monuments, a post he occupied from 1834 to 1860. There had been previous attempts to catalogue and protect France's architectural history, most of them either compromised or half-hearted. (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
Poland's Frederic Chopin May 21, 2007
Chopin s love affair with George Sand is one of the most interesting aspects of his short life ... Chopin was a victim of tuberculosis, which eventually claimed his life, and no doubt put strain on his relationship with George Sand. (Suite101.com)
* Going, going, gone native in Borneo and Taipei May 13, 2007
He meets Keyi in a Taipei coffee shop where they can order Henry James black tea (indistinguishable from George Sand black tea) and eat Pearl S. Buck strawberry cake. This is a gripping as well as a probing book. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Chris Manos takes Manhattan May 3, 2007
There s a Chekhovian touch to his epic, a good bit of George Sand and sex (she was worshipped by this milieu) and maybe a touch of George Eliot. OK. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Eugene Delacroix Apr 30, 2007
He was a friend of George Sand whom he painted. He also painted the composers Chopin and Paganini. (Suite101.com)
Smoking in France Apr 17, 2007
There are portraits of famous smokers, including George Sand, whom Tigrane greatly admires. "She smoked everything. She was the first to import tobacco from Maryland and would smoke while listening to Lizst and Chopin and chatting with Alfred de Musset.". (International Herald Tribune)
Curious George: Revisiting a writer's turbulent, adventurous life Feb 19, 2007
Naked in the Marketplace: The Lives of George SandBy Benita EislerCounterpoint, 308 pp ... The woman born Aurore Dupin and known to history as "George Sand" invented herself -- with a push from her publisher and a little help from a soon-to-be-discarded lover who donated part of her masculine pseudonym -- in 1832, reinvented herself more than once during the course of her long literary career, and has been reinvented many times since. (Boston Globe)
Isaiah Berlin text goes from unread to in demand, thanks to Stoppard's 'Utopia' Jan 27, 2007
"I tried to keep it to a little George Sand, a little Turgenev.". As a result, Berlin's book is not only all but impossible find in New York, it is also completely out of stock with its publisher, Penguin, which earlier this month quickly ordered two reprintings totaling 3,500 copies, the first time in 12 years the book has been printed, to satisfy more than 2,000 suddenly unfilled orders. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Rambles, no rumblings Auvergne Jan 20, 2007
Writer George Sand described Auvergne as "one of the loveliest spots on earth ... a soil cut up with deep ravines, crossed in every way by lofty walls of lava, and furrowed by numerous torrents." That's only half the story. Auvergne is also a land of green valleys, gently flowing rivers, nature wild and tame, and remarkable remnants of centuries past. (Washington Times)
