The Story of George Sand, non-binary and non-conformist superstar of the 19th century

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The Story of George Sand, non-binary and non-conformist superstar of the 19th century

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George Sand was an incredible non-binary figure in history who has often been neglected. While many people may be familiar with Victor Hugo and Honoré de Balzac, George Sand was actually more famous than both of these authors combined at the age of 27.
Sand was a force to be reckoned with. She was confident and independent, and led a free and unconventional life that polarized her contemporaries. Nietzsche referred to her as a "writing cow who had something bad about her in the German sense," while Charles Baudelaire called her "stupid, heavy and garrulous." Despite these insults, Sand had many fans as well. André Maurois called her the voice of women in a time when women were silent, and Victor Hugo admitted to crying like a child when she died. Sand was also immortalized in the works of Balzac, Dostoevsky, and Walt Whitman.
So, who was George Sand and how did she manage to divide people so much?

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@historyfox 5 ай бұрын

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@paulmccarthy7461 6 ай бұрын

Sand lived in an age when unmarried women could not go out in public alone, unchaperoned, without a husband. And married, it would have been scandalous to be seen with men other than her husband. She was certainly not trying to change her gender; she was acting like an emancipated woman, a writer, a social and political activist, a non-conforming adventurer who, like any fashionable dandy, could attend the theater, walk the streets of Paris with chums, smoke cheroots, and have multiple affairs. To think that she couldn't have found a ladies' room! Women were discouraged from leaving home. In Sand's case, her "non-binary" bent was born of her desire to be equal to men, to express the full range of her personality and talents in a time when social status and biology imposed such onerous restrictions on women. Thank God she didn't "come out" and bore everyone with declarations about her sexuality and gender "identity." Instead, she simply went about being herself, acting as she pleased, loving whom she wanted, mostly men, but perhaps one celebrated actress, whether in a platonic sense or not.

@user-te4of2fq5d Жыл бұрын

Oh please. She was a brilliant non conformist, quite feminine and loved flouting convention, the idea of anything else is sheer folly.

@inthehouse1960 Жыл бұрын

I've always been a fan of George Sand and I visited her house in France. You shared many things I didn't know about her. Thank you!

@historyfox Жыл бұрын

That sounds so cool! Thank you for sharing 🧡

@CarlitaDupin Жыл бұрын

I came upon this video because today a co-worker told my she visited George Sand's house in France and she told me "you should check her out". My name is Carla Dupin, born in Argentina, and my father's family never had much knowledge on our last name, only knew our family came from a certain part of France. I am so excited to know about George Sand (Aurora Dupin) and can only hope somewhere down the line I may be somewhat connected to her. Thanks for the video!

@historyfox Жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching and that cool insight! Amazing name 🧡 Maybe there is a bit George Sand in you :)

@joslynaarons6885 8 ай бұрын

C’est merveilleux Mademoiselle Dupin. You must visit her Mansion in Nuhant. George Sand is my Icon and I draw much inspiration from this exceptional and great woman of the 1800s. Jocelyne Mirambeau

@historyfox 5 ай бұрын

@@joslynaarons6885 Yes, I really need to visit her mansion, experiencing the flair of mademoiselle Dupin 🧡

@claudettedelphis6476 5 ай бұрын

Thank you for the great video and what fabulous information you share with us. George Sand was indeed ahead of her time and will always be remembered.

@Xesxs Жыл бұрын

She had a pen name so that her work would be published. And she preferred to wear men's clothing because of ease. She was separate from her husband like a lot of marriage. Maybe a feminist but not queer. Queer for the time for sure after Chopin didn't romantic love her back. His fault.

@Xesxs Жыл бұрын

Thank you. I recommend the HBO movie about Chopin and the biography.

@Ilivedbih Жыл бұрын

Yeeeah. I've been called nb numerous times because I wear "masculine" clothes. Which I think is actually quite sexist, as if clothes would make me less of a woman. I don't like clothing being labeled into gender. I don't like skirts and dresses simply bc of how people would tell me I have to wear them when I was a little girl, so I festered this negative feeling towards them.

@bunnybird9342 Жыл бұрын

George is actually feminine in French. The masculine version is Georges. She was still queer regardless though, because she was bisexual.

@gudetamaminiso513 7 ай бұрын

@@bunnybird9342 George and Georges are both masculin in French, and having some lesbian love affairs doesn't make you queer..-_-

@findelka1810 Жыл бұрын

Great video! I also only realized recently that she did’t divorce her husband as divorce was illegal in 1830s France, but managed to get a legal separation (as close to divorce as one could get at the time) which included child custody and material settlements. She was awarded custody of her children, but lost about half her money/assets. Not sure if she’d written as much as she did if she didn’t need the money constantly.

@historyfox Жыл бұрын

That’s so cool and interesting! Thank you for that great remark 🙏🏻

@olsaffa7679 Жыл бұрын

An updated MLK statement: Don't judge a person by their sex, skin colour, religion, or any external markers, but by the content of their character and their deeds.

@historyfox Жыл бұрын

That's how we all should live our lives :)

@raymondhummel5211 Жыл бұрын

She was a very talented writer with an usual life style. I haven't had a chance to read any of her books yet but plan too.

@historyfox Жыл бұрын

It's also been some time I read Indiana and Lélia in my studies. Tell me what you read and how you liked it? :)

@raymondhummel5211 Жыл бұрын

I have about 2,ooo books and read them on all different subject's Some of the writers I like are O Henry, Helen Steiner Rice (poetry) there also helpful when I write songs about different historical events in my own songs like Joan of Arc, To Late To Run about Custer's Last Stand, Wild Bill Hickok, Calamity Jane just a few songs I have written and many others. I also like Victor Hugo, William Shakespeare, Marcel Proust, Kipling, books on art and music, history about all parts of the world, the classics, Also like Jane Austen, Jules Verne, E. M. Forster, James Baldwin, French, British American, Oriental, Australian, etc. literature. African historical like battles between the British and the Boers and the Zulu's African tribe. I could go on and on as my interests are so vast.