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===Childhood=== Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin, the future George Sand, was born on 1 July 1804 on Meslay Street in Paris to Maurice Dupin de Francueil and Sophie-Victoire Delaborde. She was the paternal great-granddaughter of the Marshal of France [[Maurice de Saxe]] (1696β1750), and on her mother's side, her grandfather was Antoine Delaborde, master [[Jeu de paume|paumier]] and master birder.<ref>{{Citation|url=http://www.cbx41.com/ext/http://www.cbx41.com/photo-1326389-Mus-e-de-la-Vie-romantique_6164_jpg.html |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130102043729/http://www.cbx41.com/ext/http://www.cbx41.com/photo-1326389-Mus-e-de-la-Vie-romantique_6164_jpg.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=2 January 2013 |publisher=CBX41 |title=MusΓ©e de la Vie Romantique |place=Paris |type=family tree }}.</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Sand|first=George|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/694516159|title=Lelia|date=1982|publisher=Indiana University Press|others=Maria Espinosa|isbn=978-0-253-33318-6|location=Bloomington|oclc=694516159}}</ref> For much of her childhood, she was raised by her grandmother [[Marie-Aurore de Saxe]], Madame Dupin de Francueil, at her [[House of George Sand|grandmother's house]] in the village of [[Nohant]], in the French province of [[Berry, France|Berry]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/George-Sand|title=George Sand {{!}} French novelist|website=Encyclopedia Britannica|language=en|access-date=2 March 2019}}</ref> Sand inherited the house in 1821 when her grandmother died, and used the setting in many of her novels.
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