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Paris 1832 - Two words "romanticism" and "revolution" are on everyone's lips. On June 3rd, a student uprising leads to rioting and the streets run red with blood. On this very same day the baroness Dudevant, arrives from the provinces to embark on her literary career under her chosen pen-name: George Sand.

Alfred de Musset, "the most gifted poet and writer of his generation" is at 23 the leader of a pack of rakes who fritter away their youth in absurd dissipation - without hope, ideals or ambition. in the middle of an orgy, he learns that his father has been struck down by 

Time passes and Alfred's writing matures. Sand on the other hand is fast to gain a reputation. She has just completed Lelia, a novel about frigidity. Her publisher suggests a reading in public of erotic excerpts from the book. This reading is a catastrophe. Sand is violently insulted by "le tout-Paris". Only one man offers her consolation and support, Alfred de Musset.

These two writers, disillusioned by love, and by the world around them, take comfort in each other.  They meet again , and again, and again...
Madame de Musset sees as fatal her son's relationship with a married woman, ten years his senior, who smokes cigars and dresses like a man. But they are madly in love, although scared of admitting it, they set off for Italy. The voyage is arduous, and when they arrive to Venice on New Years Eve, Sand is ill, and has to be seen by a doctor immediately, Dr. Pagello. The jouney has sorely tested their relationship. Musset deserts Sand for the brothels and casinos.
He writes in the morning, she writes at night.
Within no time they are leading separate lives in separate rooms.
Arguments ensue, Alfred storms out once too often and the combine effect of drink and opium render him very ill.
Sand, once again calls Dr. Pagello. Night and day, Sand and the doctor attend to the patient and their inevitable intimacy draws them into each others arms.

When Musset recovers, Sand writes to Pagello to break off their relationship. But Musset finds the letter and in a fit of jealous rage, almost kills Sand. Musset returns to Paris while Sand stays in Venice with Pagello.

Yes, they start to write to each other immediately, re-igniting their passion. 
When Sand returns to Paris they realize that their love is stronger than ever before.
This new period of happiness is soon shattered by Musset's fits of jealousy and his obsession with Pagello. They separate again.
While Musset disappears in the country to write his version of their love-story:
"Les Confessions d'un Enfant du Siècle", George is left nursing a broken heart.
She write Alfred a string of 9desperate letters to which he never replies... Later, much later, knowing him to be terminally ill, Sand rushes to Musset's side.
She arrives to late... Never ever to see her lover again.

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