Editing George Sand (section)

====Chopin====

Sand spent the winter of 1838–1839 with [[Frédéric Chopin]] in [[Mallorca]] at the (formerly abandoned) [[Carthusian]] monastery of [[Valldemossa]].<ref>{{Citation | url = http://www.valldemossa.com/museoin.htm | title = Museoin | publisher = Valldemossa}}.</ref> The trip to Mallorca was described in her ''Un hiver à Majorque'' (''[[A Winter in Majorca]]''), first published in 1841.<ref>Travers, Martin (ed.), [https://books.google.com/books?id=fZFitE0jpv4C&dq=%22a+winter+in+majorca%22+sand&pg=PA97 ''European Literature from Romanticism to Postmodernism: A Reader in Aesthetic Practice''.] Continuum publishing, 2006, p. 97. {{ISBN|978-0826439604}}</ref> Chopin [[Chopin's disease|was already ill]] with incipient tuberculosis at the beginning of their relationship, and spending a cold and wet winter in Mallorca where they could not get proper lodgings exacerbated his symptoms.<ref>{{Cite news|last1=Pruszewicz|first1=Marek|title=The mystery of Chopin's death|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-29915863|date=22 December 2014|access-date=20 January 2015|work=[[BBC News]]}}</ref>[[File:ChopinSandDelacroix.jpg|thumb|Sand sews while Chopin plays piano, in a hypothetical reconstruction of Delacroix's 1838 painting, ''[[Portrait of Frédéric Chopin and George Sand]]''.|left]]

Sand and Chopin also spent many long summers at [[House of George Sand|Sand's country manor in Nohant]] from 1839 to 1846, skipping only 1840.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Nohant, Indre: Frédéric Chopin and George Sand|url=https://www.francetoday.com/learn/history/nohant_chopin_sand/|access-date=29 January 2022|website=www.google.com|date=16 September 2010}}</ref> There, Chopin wrote many of his most famous works, including the [[Fantaisie in F minor (Chopin)|Fantaisie in F minor, Op. 49]], [[Piano Sonata No. 3 (Chopin)|Piano Sonata No. 3, Op. 58]], and the [[Ballade No. 3 (Chopin)|Ballade No. 3 Op. 47]].

In her novel ''Lucrezia Floriani'', Sand is said to have used Chopin as a model for a sickly Eastern European prince named Karol. He is cared for by a middle-aged actress past her prime, Lucrezia, who suffers greatly through her affection for Karol.{{Sfn | Szulc | 1998 | p = 326}} Though Sand claimed not to have made a cartoon out of Chopin, the book's publication and widespread readership may have exacerbated their later antipathy towards each other. After Chopin's death, Sand burned much of their correspondence, leaving only four surviving letters between the two.<ref name=":1">{{Cite journal|last1=Belotti|first1=Gastone|last2=Sand|first2=George|last3=Weiss|first3=Piero|date=1966|title=Three Unpublished Letters by George Sand and Their Contribution to Chopin Scholarship|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/3085958|journal=The Musical Quarterly|volume=52|issue=3|pages=283–303|doi=10.1093/mq/LII.3.283|jstor=3085958|issn=0027-4631}}</ref> Three of the letters were published in the "Classiques Garnier" series in 1968.<ref name=":1" />[[File:Alexandre Manceau (1817-1865).jpg|thumb|Alexandre Manceau (1817–1865), long time lover of George Sand from 1849 to 1865|217x217px]]

Another breach was caused by Chopin's attitude toward Sand's daughter, Solange.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Jensen|first=Katharine Ann|date=1 February 2013|title=The Chopin Affair: George Sand's Rivalry with her Daughter|url=https://doi.org/10.1080/08905495.2013.770617|journal=Nineteenth-Century Contexts|volume=35|issue=1|pages=41–64|doi=10.1080/08905495.2013.770617|s2cid=193206245|issn=0890-5495}}</ref> Chopin continued to be cordial to Solange after she and her husband [[Auguste Clésinger]] fell out with Sand over money. Sand took Chopin's support of Solange to be extremely disloyal, and confirmation that Chopin had always "loved" Solange.<ref>From the correspondence of Sand and Chopin: {{harvnb|Szulc|1998|p=344}}</ref>

Sand's son Maurice disliked Chopin. Maurice wanted to establish himself as the "man of the estate" and did not wish to have Chopin as a rival. Maurice removed two sentences from a letter Sand wrote to Chopin when he published it because he felt that Sand was too affectionate toward Chopin and Solange.<ref name=":1" />

Chopin and Sand separated two years before his death for a variety of reasons.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Frédéric Chopin and George Sand: A Collaborative Union {{!}} The Romantic Piano|url=https://www.wqxr.org/story/291926-frederic-chopin-and-george-sand-a-collaborative-union/|access-date=2 March 2019|website=WQXR|date=9 May 2013 |language=en}}</ref> Chopin was never asked back to Nohant; in 1848, he returned to Paris from a tour of the United Kingdom, to die at the [[Place Vendôme]] in 1849. George Sand was notably absent from his funeral.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/20/books/chapters/chopins-funeral.html|title=Excerpted from 'Chopin's Funeral'|last=Eisler|first=Benita|date=20 April 2003|work=The New York Times|access-date=1 December 2019|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}</ref>

In December 1849, Maurice invited the [[Engraving|engraver]] Alexandre Manceau to celebrate Christmas in Nohant. George Sand fell passionately in love with Manceau, he became her lover, companion and secretary and they stayed together for fifteen years until his death.<ref name=":2">{{Cite book |last=Harlan |first=Elizabeth |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/191935438 |title=George Sand |date=2004 |publisher=Yale University Press |isbn=978-0-300-13056-0 |location=New Haven |pages=286f., 298 |oclc=191935438}}</ref>