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The most lovable event
in the life of this much loved woman was her old age affair--
purely platonic--with Gustave Flaubert. The correspondence shows
her to have been "maternal" to the last.
In the recently published "Lettres a l'etrangere" of Honore de
Balzac, this about Sand is very apropos. A visit paid to George
Sand at Nohant, in March 1838, brought the following to Madame
Hanska:
It was rather well that I saw her, for we exchanged
confidences regarding Sandeau. I, who blamed her to the last
for deserting him, now feel only a deep compassion for her, as
you will have for me, when you learn with whom we have had
relations, she of love, I of friendship.
But she has been even more unhappy with Musset. So here she
is, in retreat, denouncing both marriage and love, because in
both she has found nothing but delusion.
I will tell you of her immense and secret devotion to these
two men, and you will agree that there is nothing in common
between angels and devils. All the follies she has committed
are claims to glory in the eyes of great and beautiful souls.


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