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Dudevant

American  
[dyduh-vahn] / düdəˈvɑ̃ /

noun

  1. Madame Amandine Lucile Aurore Sand, George.


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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

Her husband was the bastard son of Baron Dudevant.

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

In the young girl of barely eighteen, country-bred and intellectually immature, whom M. Dudevant had chosen to marry, who could have discerned one of the greatest poetical geniuses and most powerful minds of the century?

From Famous Women: George Sand by Thomas, Bertha

Meantime Madame Dudevant, whose position at Nohant was that of a visitor merely, and becoming untenable, felt her hold on her cherished home and her children becoming more precarious day by day.

From Famous Women: George Sand by Thomas, Bertha