Hello, dear readers. January advances and with it life. We begin this year, with all hopes and the desire to move forward. They say that a person only needs three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do and something to hope for.

Since we talk about love and hope, today I want to continue with those forbidden, impossible and crazy loves that we have heard or read about. Passionate loves, but truncated by society, by third parties and even by death. Today I will tell you the story of a failed love between one of the best musicians in history and a novelist: Frédéric Chopin and George Sand.

Source

As we all know, Chopin is one of the most famous composers and pianists of universal music, so much so that he is considered the inventor of the modern piano. From George Sand perhaps we have heard less and is that this was the pseudonym of Amantine Aurore Lucile Dupin, French writer, who wrote Indiana, Lélia, El compañero de Francia, Consuelo, Los maestros soñadores, among other novels. It is said that within the circle of friends of this writer were the composer Franz Liszt, the painter Eugène Delacroix, the writers Heinrich Heine, Victor Hugo, Honoré de Balzac, Julio Verne and Gustave Flaubert.

There is much we can read about the behaviour, manners and way of dressing of George Sand, who apparently dressed as a man to be able to walk freely in Paris; it is also said that he had behaviours that could create polemics for the time and for his class, such as he smoked, was independent, egomaniac, a liar and had many lovers, including the famous writer of the short novel Carmen, Prosper Mérimée, Alfred De Musset and the French novelist Sandeau from whom he assumed the surname.

Source

From the first meeting between George Sand and Chopin we know by one of his letters:

Today I met a great celebrity, Madame Dudevant, known as George Sand. His appearance is not pleasant. In fact there is something about her that undoubtedly repels me. What a unattractive person! Is she really a woman? I'm inclined to doubt it.

Chopin's novelist expresses a similar term:

Is that Mr. Chopin a girl?

But in spite of that initial disagreement and the bad impressions of both of them, and of any prognosis, they began a relationship. Some comment that it was the chaste and soft character of the pianist and George's masculine impetus that gave birth to the attraction. Others have said that due to Chopin's illness, tuberculosis, the breakdown of his commitment to Maria Wodzinska, a teenager with whom he had fallen in love, and even the precarious economic situation he was living became easy prey for George, who always liked to boast about getting what he wanted.

It is said that one of their key and definitive moments is the season they spend in Mallorca. Not only the couple but also George's children travel there. What had been thought of as a journey of pleasure and recreation would soon become a tragedy and a disastrous journey. Not only were the inhabitants of the area who looked very badly on the couple because they were not married, but Chopin, due to his illness and the predominant climate of the area, worsened, so they had to leave Mallorca unexpectedly and go to Barcelona, where they had to spend a season until the pianist improved.

It must be said that George and Chopin's relationship was always marked by the pianist's illness, hence the writer's conversion from lover to nurse, almost a mother to him, who not only cared for him but gave him words of affection and understanding. It is said, for example, that the novelist called Chopin "her third child," and frequently referred to him as "boy" or "little angel". Likewise, that passion soon gave rise to friendship (in a letter from Sand to Grzimala, May 12, 1847, it reads: "I have lived as a virgin for seven years. With him and with the others").

It is said that the relationship between George Sand and Chopin breaks down when she begins to be jealous of Chopin because she believes that he is in love with her daughter; there is even talk that George begins a new relationship with another man. However, several specialists bet on thinking that the decline of the relationship had already begun, when the novelist wrote Lucrezia Floriani. With this novel, Chopin feels humiliated, as he feels that the story is inspired by his relationship. The story is about Lucrezia, a famous Italian actress who has retired to the countryside to raise her children. She meets a sweet and sensitive teenager, who falls in love with her and starts a romance. In the story Lucrezia takes care of Karol as a "sick kitten". Chopin sees in this story, his story and can not bear it.

After 10 years, the relationship between these two artists culminated. Two years after his break-up, on October 17, 1849, Frédéric Chopin, only 39 years old, died in Paris, victim of the tuberculosis that had accompanied him half his life. She, George Sand, also died in France on June 8, 1876, at the age of 71 from gastric cancer.

---

As you have seen, love has its own ways and unexpected endings. I hope you found this story interesting. Remember to vote for Hive account@adsactly as a witness and join our server in discord. Until the next smile.;)