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(Ep. 1 and 2, 97′, original version with Italian subtitles).
Actress Nine D’Urso and director Rodolphe Tissot will be present.
Aurore Dupin left Nohant for Paris in 1830 to escape her violent husband. At that time, the capital was in the throes of the Romanticist movement following the Revolution of July 1830. Adopting a Bohemian life, she published her very first novel, using a pseudonym; and so “George Sand” was born. She went on to become the first female writer ever to make a living from her books, inflaming her readers’ passions and sealing a string of literary successes. A feminist before her time, wearing men’s clothing and smoking a pipe in order to gain access to cafes and cabarets, this hardcore romantic had a plethora of lovers, Alfred de Musset, and the great romantic stage actress Marie Dorval among the most famous. Committed to ideals of social justice, including sexual equality, she fought against any type of oppression leveled at women. She became one of the greatest writers of her time, adulated by the youth of the day. Her novels provided a vast depiction of contemporary France at that time. But her true masterpiece was, quite simply, her life!
