WorkGeorge Sand (Aurore Dudevant)

Jacques

George Sand (Aurore Dudevant) (1804–1876)

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Documented 1839

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    “Still in "André" and "Jacques" I traced the same high morality”

    Manuscripts (Houghton Library, Margaret Fuller Family Papers) · 1839 (date supplied by merged witness re222, Mem-2 Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli (sections))

    MERGED 2026-10-11: absorbed duplicate witness(es) re222 (Mem-2 Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli (sections), Mem-2-05, line 10644; tier A; date taken from this witness; same passage) — counted once here. First-person reflection tracing themes implying direct reading of Jacques (same passage as André).

When Fuller engaged with this work

I. Childhood
II. Adolescence
III. Self-Directed
IV. Transcendentalist1record
V. New York
VI. Europe
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Notes on Balzac, George Sand, De Vigny, and Béranger

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“Still in "André" and "Jacques" I traced the same high morality of one who had tried the liberty of circumstance only to learn to appreciate the liberty of law, to know that licence is the foe of freedom.”

Fuller, Margaret. "Notes on Balzac, George Sand, De Vigny, and Béranger." Houghton Library, Harvard University.

Preserved in the Memoirs (1852)

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Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli

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“Still, in Andre and in Jacques, I traced the same high morality of one who had tried the liberty of circumstance”

Emerson, Ralph Waldo, William Henry Channing, and James Freeman Clarke, eds. Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli. 2 vols. Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1852.