Dudevant
Americannoun
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Her husband was the bastard son of Baron Dudevant.
From Time Magazine Archive
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At 18, strait-laced but bursting with romantic ideas, she married Casimir Dudevant, an amiable but entirely unimaginative fellow who spent his days hunting, his evenings snoring.
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But when her grandmother died, 18-year-old Aurore promptly married Casimir Dudevant, whom acid Poet Heinrich Heine later described as having "the tepid vulgarity, the banal nullity, the porcelain stare of a Chinese pagoda."
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As an upshot, Sandeau followed Dudevant, de Seze, Grandsaigne, and the rest into the limbo of George Sand's discarded lovers; where he was soon to be joined by many another and far greater man.
From Superwomen by Terhune, Albert Payson
"He would have escorted us thus," says Madame Dudevant, "from one extremity of Paris to another, if we had let him."
From Famous Women: George Sand by Thomas, Bertha
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