Once my heart was captured, reason was shown the door, deliberately and with a sort of frantic joy. I accepted everything, I believed everything, without struggle, without suffering, without regret, without false shame. How can one blush for what one adores?

They publiGeorge Sandd a few stories in collaboration signing them "Jules Sand. In 1848 he returned to Paris from a tour of the UK and died at the Place Vendôme.

Amantine (also "Amandine") Lucile Aurore Dupin (French: [amɑ̃tin lysil oʁɔʁ dypɛ̃]) later Baroness (French: baronne) Dudevant (1 July 1804 – 8 June 1876) best known by her pseudonym George Sand (French: [ʒɔʁʒ sɑ̃d]) was a French novelist and memoirist.