George Sand, 150 ans après : rencontre avec l'historienne Marie-Hélène Baylac

150 years ago, George Sand died. What remains of her today? To understand this, we met with those who know her best. The first is a historian. Marie-Hélène Baylac, a history professor and graduate of the École Normale Supérieure, has dedicated her career to women who made their mark on history in a century that didn't expect them. After Hortense de Beauharnais and Louise Michel, she has written George Sand: The Passion for Life, a biography published by Perrin in co-edition with the BnF (National Library of France), in the Bibliothèque des Illustres (Library of Illustrious Figures) collection. In this interview, she reveals Sand in all her complexity. Not the statue of textbooks nor the "good lady of Nohant," but a complete woman: a novelist of more than seventy books, an activist, a free spirit, deeply affected by the revolutions of her time. She recounts how she reconstructed Sand's life using archival research, and why Sand remains, in her opinion, "the great woman" of whom Victor Hugo spoke. A literary report by Héloïse Coudyser and Édouard Leroy (@endoudlettres). 📚 George Sand: The Passion for Life, by Marie-Hélène Baylac, co-published by Perrin and the BnF (National Library of France), Bibliothèque des illustres collection. Find the full report on Instagram (@endoudlettres) and on the Horizon et Infini website. #GeorgeSand #MarieHélèneBaylac #History #Literature #Biography