Volume 20, Number 16 · October 18, 1973
Chopin's Progress
By Robert Craft
At first glance the demand for a George Sand 'revival' in her country would seem to be about as pressing as one for J. Fenimore Cooper in his. A recent edition of her correspondence has provoked interest, nevertheless, some of her other works have been reissued, and, as I write, the lady herself—in photographs and in a new Pléiade picture book, Album Sand—is the subject of a display in Gallimard's Boulevard Raspail window. Special attention is also being given to an intimate of Sand's Nohant circle, Eugène Delacroix, in books (T. J. Clark's The Absolute Bourgeois, for one) as well as in exhibitions. The Musée Delacroix, in the artist's former studio on the Place Furstenberg, is currently featuring several of his drawings for Liberty (in Liberty Guiding the People), probably the most famous 'topless' female ever to appear in public.
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