Amantine-Lucile-Aurore Dupin 1804 - 1876, best known by her pseudonym George Sand was a French novelist and memoirist. She is equally well known for her much publicized romantic affairs with a number of celebrities including Frederic Chopin and Alfred de Musset. She was known well in far reaches of the world, and her social practices, her writings and her beliefs prompted much commentary, often by other luminaries in the world of arts and letters. In this book: The Devil's Pool Mauprat"
Amantine-Lucile-Aurore Dupin 1804 - 1876, best known by her pseudonym George Sand was a French novelist and memoirist. She is equally well known for h...
The quatrain in old French written below one of Holbein's pictures is profoundly sad in its simplicity. The engraving represents a ploughman driving his plough through a field. A vast expanse of country stretches away in the distance, with some poor cabins here and there; the sun is setting behind the hill. It is the close of a hard day's work. The peasant is a short, thick-set man, old, and clothed in rags.
The quatrain in old French written below one of Holbein's pictures is profoundly sad in its simplicity. The engraving represents a ploughman driving h...
