Dudevant

At eighteen she married the son of a colonel and baron of the empire, by name Dudevant, but after nine years she separated from her husband, and, bent upon a literary career, made her way to Paris.

The World's Greatest Books — Volume 07 — Fiction Various 1910

At the period when Madame Dudevant withdrew her neck from the conjugal yoke and plunged into her literary career in Paris, the doctrine that men are created for freedom, equality and fraternity was already somewhat hackneyed.

The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters 2003

Mme. Dudevant, on her side, would have nothing more to do with this rustic rake.

Famous Affinities of History — Complete Lyndon Orr

During this week-end visit, Madame Dudevant related to Balzac the story of Liszt and Madame d'Agoult, which he reproduced in _Beatrix_, since in her position, she could not do so herself.

Women in the Life of Balzac Juanita Helm Floyd

Dudevant drank more and more heavily, and jeered at his wife because she was "always looking for noon at fourteen o'clock."

Famous Affinities of History — Complete Lyndon Orr

After Sue and Dumas, Balzac is (with the exception, perhaps, of Madame Dudevant,) the best known, and most read, out of France, of all the living French novelists.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847 Various

Balzac felt that Madame Dudevant was not lovable, and would always be difficult to love; she was a _garcon_, an artist, she was grand, generous, devoted, chaste; she had the traits of a man, -- she was not a woman.

Women in the Life of Balzac Juanita Helm Floyd

Madame Dudevant was an excessive smoker, and during Balzac's visit to her, she had him smoke a hooka and latakia which he enjoyed so much that he wrote to Madame Hanska, asking her to get him a hooka in

Women in the Life of Balzac Juanita Helm Floyd

In 1831 Madame Dudevant, having attained some literary fame by the publication of _Indiana_, desired to meet the author of _La Peau de Chagrin_, who was living in the rue

Women in the Life of Balzac Juanita Helm Floyd

Madame Dudevant not only remained a true friend to Balzac in a literary and financial sense, but was glad to defend his character, and was firm in refuting statements derogatory to him.

Women in the Life of Balzac Juanita Helm Floyd