Dudevant

[ French dyduh-vahn ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

Madame A·man·dine Lu·cile Au·rore [a, -mah, n, -, deen, l, y, -, seel, oh-, rawr]. Sand, George.

At last Madame Dudevant made up her mind to go to Paris and try her luck in literature.

Aurore Dupin, Baroness Dudevant, one of the most celebrated authoresses of the nineteenth century.

Madame Dudevant laid aside her pencil and took up the pen—not to lay it down again.

The journals added fuel to the fire by their remarks and criticisms, and at once Madame Dudevant was a great authoress.

She left M. Dudevant at Nohant, resigning her fortune, and proceeded to Paris, where she was hard pressed to find a living.

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