The writer George Sand's beautiful and fascinating château.

George Sand (Aurore Dupin), the great writer,
lover of Frédéric Chopin and many other famous men, was an early non-conformist and feminist. Defying both the law and convention she often dressed as a man and smoked cigars in public. She was interested in personages from all levels of life from Napoleon to the local peasantry. She and her son Maurice established a little puppet theatre in the house shown here where she took great delight in seating the local gentry shoulder-to-shoulder with the lowliest farm hands. A fascinating person who lived life to the full, she is the subject of many books, plays and even Hollywood films such as the Merl Oberon movie “A Song To Remember”. It is well worth going out of your way to visit this house, the museum and the gardens situated in her beloved Berry region, which feels like the very heart and soul of France.