For French author George Sand (1804-1876), motherhood was often fraught with the kind of drama that colored many of her relationships prior to mellow older age. Her son Maurice was a major mama’s boy, causing petty jealousy for Sand’s most famed live-in lover, Frederic Chopin.

Could it have been from spite that he unconsciously (or not so unconsciously) fell in love with Sand’s daughter, Solange, when she was a pretty and flirtatious young lady of seventeen? Read More→