Solange Dudevant (13 September 1828 – 17 March 1899) was a French writer and novelist and the daughter of George Sand.

Solange Dudevant
Portrait de Solange Dudevant by her husband Auguste Clésinger
Born	(1828-09-13)13 September 1828 Nohant-Vic, France
Died	17 March 1899(1899-03-17) (aged 70) Nohant-Vic, France
Resting place	Cemetery at Nohant
Occupation	Writer
Spouse	Auguste Clésinger ​ ​ (m. 1847; div. 1852)​
Children	2
Parents	Casimir Dudevant ? (father) George Sand (mother)
Relatives	Maurice Sand (brother)

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.[1] [2]

In 1846 Solange became engaged to Fernand de Preaulx.[3] But in 1847, she married the sculptor Auguste Clésinger, whom she met while posing for a bust. Solange was 19; the sculptor 32.[4] 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. Nicknamed Nini, that child died in 1855 of Scarlet Fever. [5]

Under the name Solange Clésinger-Sand, she published her first novel, Jacques Bruneau, in 1870. Her second book, Carl Robert, was published in 1887.

She died on March 17, 1899 at her home in Paris and is buried in a private cemetery in Nohant-Vic.

Works

• Jacques Bruneau, 1870
• Carl Robert, 1887

References