PARISIAN ENCOUNTERS:

Frederic Chopin & George Sand


1837 1837

Frederic Chopin met George Sand when he was twenty-six and she was thirty-two at a recital he gave at his apartment. 

 

When they met he was a revered musical genius and she was a successful writer who had acquired an exotic notoriety for wearing men's trousers and smoking cigars.  



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