House of George Sand

The Maison de George Sand is an estate in Nohant -Vic, France. It was built in the 18th century for the Governor of Vierzon on the remains of a medieval manor house. In 1793, the grandmother of the writer, Madame Dupin de Francueil, the estate. George Sand spent her childhood and youth, and wrote in Nohant, much of her work. 1953 bequeathed to her granddaughter the state the country house, which is under the national monument management today.

Rural castle life

Built in the regionally popular style, nestled on the edge of the village square building has, in the words of the writer " no greater pomp than any other rural residential house". The interior of the house was intended to create an atmosphere of community and free coexistence. George Sands friends who went on the trip to Nohant, should be encouraged and exchange among themselves promoted. Among the writers and artists who gathered around him and temporarily resided in Nohant, were Balzac, Delacroix, Liszt, Chopin and Flaubert.

For Delacroix, George Sand had left set up in the servants' wing in the loft specifically a studio. The artist writes:

" The house is very comfortable and the hosts beat down opposite me in kindnesses. If you do not eat together for lunch or dinner, play pool or go for a walk, you stay in his room, reading or makes it comfortable on the sofa. From time to time the wind carries through the open window into the garden sounds from the game Chopin in, to the song of nightingales and smell the roses. "

Interior

The present arrangement of the house corresponds to the George Sands times. The traces of the family and social activities are not to be overlooked. This includes the son of George Sands, Maurice, in pastel tones designed vestibule. Similarly, the coverslipped with the preferred George Sand Porcelain Manufactory Creil Montereau - table in the dining room, lit by a magnificent chandelier of Venetian glass.

In the salon, hang portraits of the ancestors and descendants of George Sands on the walls, was played in the evening or there were puppet pieces listed. The puppet show was improvised in the first period with simple means. Later George Sand taught a downstairs a theater room, leaving her there plays tentatively perform before they were played in Paris. These were mainly puppet theater, but often also occurred actor and also the guests themselves on.

Also on display is the writing cabinet in which George Sand wrote her first novels, as well as the so-called blue chamber, furnished in Louis XVI style, where she died on June 8, 1876.

The largest room in the house is restored in 1998, decorated in the Art Deco - style chamber Aurora Lauth -Sands. Here is the granddaughter of George Sand lived until her death in 1961.

Garden

On the 6 -acre grounds of the property are a graceful French garden with blumengefülltem book ground floor, a rose garden, a forest, an orchard and a section of the park pond. Two large cedar remember George Sand's children, each one planted at the birth of Maurice and Solange.

Current use of the property

The sheepfold was converted into a concert hall. Every year there are the "Festival of Romance" and the international Chopin days. In addition, there is an annual open-air film festival dedicated to cinematic adaptations great novels. The station building in the courtyard houses in the attic of the " literary memory ," a venue for readings, writing workshops and meetings with authors.