SAND (George).

SAND (George).

L.A.S. ""George, sl, c. March 23, 1836, to her friend and solicitor Sylvain-Alexis POURADIER-DUTEIL (1796-1852), 2 pp. in-8 (address and postmarks), on paper with cold monogram "GS", underlining the tensions with her former husband François Casimir Dudevant, a few weeks after the divorce pronounced by the La Châtre court in George Sand's favor on February 16, 1836: "Do you know that Mr. Dudevant is in Bourges, and that he is entering the countryside? If he doesn't come to La Châtre, you'd do well in his interest to go and find him to put his mind at rest. Loyalty teaches me to offer him his pardon again. Make him understand that it would be too late and that his defeat would be serious. Ask Gaston [Agasta Duteil] not to leave any paperwork, however indifferent, lying around in my room at her house. There's an old crate full of old papers. Tell her to lock it up. Sometimes you can do anything [...]"". Cf. Correspondance de G. Sand (by G. Lubin, Classiques-Garnier, 1964-1995), tome III pp. 317-318, n°1126. Attached is a curious L.A.S. from Pouradier-Dutheil in Berrichon dialect to G. Sand. Sand, January 21, 1835, (4 pp. in-4, with address and postmarks) in which he announces that he has given Arnault imprimeur the text of the "Complainte de Jean Luneau" and that 200 copies will be printed on yellow paper (a few tears and small tears). Born in La Châtre (Indre; near Nohant), Duteil - also spelled Dutheil by Sand - was a friend of Baron Casimir Dudevant (1795-1871) and his wife George Sand. When the couple separated, he sided with the latter. The son of a La Châtre solicitor, and a solicitor himself, he became a lawyer (late 1828), then a judge at the La Châtre court, ending his career as president of chamber at the Bourges court, thanks to the support of George Sand, who also had him appointed public prosecutor in 1848. Reputedly a bon vivant, Sand gave her Berrichon friend a number of explicit nicknames, such as Boutarin or Dionysius.