Dudevant
Americannoun
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But when her grandmother died, 18-year-old Aurore promptly married Casimir Dudevant, whom acid Poet Heinrich Heine later described as having "the tepid vulgarity, the banal nullity, the porcelain stare of a Chinese pagoda."
From Time Magazine Archive
At 18, strait-laced but bursting with romantic ideas, she married Casimir Dudevant, an amiable but entirely unimaginative fellow who spent his days hunting, his evenings snoring.
From Time Magazine Archive
Her husband was the bastard son of Baron Dudevant.
From Time Magazine Archive
Valledemosa is here," said my companion, "the village beside that convent where Madame Dudevant brought Chopin to die, and from which she took him away full of new life.
From The Recipe for Diamonds by Hyne, Charles John Cutcliffe Wright
Madame Dudevant lives retired, and likes not to be trotted out for the entertainment of the curious.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 372, October 1846 by Various
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