Solange Dudevant
French novelist
Solange Dudevant (13 September 1828 – 17 March 1899) was a French writer and novelist and the daughter of George Sand.
Biography
Solange Dudevant was born to author George Sand at Nohant on 13 September 1828. She was Sand's second child. Although Sand was married to Casimir Dudevant at the time, Solange's father was rumored to be Stéphane de Grandsagne.
Dudevant was tutored by the writer Louise Crombach.
In 1846 Solange became engaged to Fernand de Preaulx. But in 1847, she married the sculptor Auguste Clésinger, whom she met while posing for a bust. Solange was 18; the sculptor 32. The couple had a daughter, Jeanne, in 1848, but the child died a week after birth. A second daughter, also named Jeanne, was born in 1849.
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