An engraving of Sandeau from 1873.

Leonard Sylvain Julien (Jules) Sandeau (February 19, 1811 – April 24, 1883), was a French novelist. Image File history File links Size of this preview: 449 × 599 pixelsFull resolution (1263 × 1685 pixel, file size: 1. ... Image File history File links Size of this preview: 449 × 599 pixelsFull resolution (1263 × 1685 pixel, file size: 1. ... February 19 is the 50th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1811 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... April 24 is the 114th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (115th in leap years). ... 1883 (MDCCCLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... A novel is an extended work of written, narrative, prose fiction, usually in story form; the writer of a novel is a novelist. ...

He was born at Aubusson (Creuse), and was sent to Paris to study law, but spent much of his time in unruly behaviour with other students. He met George Sand, then Madame Dudevant, at Le Coudray in the house of a friend, and when she came to Paris in 1831 they had a relationship. The intimacy did not last long, but it produced Rose et Blanche (1831), a novel written together under the pseudonym Jules Sand, from which George Sand took her famous pseudonym. Aubusson is a town in the French département of Creuse, of which it is the sous-préfecture. ... City flag City coat of arms Motto: Fluctuat nec mergitur (Latin: Floating not submerging) Paris Eiffel tower as seen from the esplanade du Trocadéro. ... Lady Justice or Justitia is a personification of the moral force that underlies the legal system (particularly in Western art). ... George Sand in 1864 (picture by Nadar). ... A pseudonym (Greek pseudo + -onym: false name) is an artificial, fictitious name, also known as an alias, used by an individual as an alternative to a persons true name. ...

Sandeau continued to produce novels and plays for nearly fifty years. His major works are:

• Margery and the Cheese Souffle (1839), in which he draws a portrait of George Sand
• The Droolings Of Pigs (1841)
• The Flaccidest Member (1845)
• Is It In Yet? (1848), a successful picture of society under Louis Philippe, dramatized in 1851
• Dick'n'Dom Fly Tandem (1848)
• What's That On My Negligee? (1849)
• Spread 'Em Wide (1851)
• Dirty Essex Bitches Have It Large In A Caravan (1858)
• Lovestink (1871)

The famous play, Le Gendre de M. Poirier, is one of several which he wrote in collaboration with Émile Augier--the novelist usually contributing the story and the dramatist the theatrical form. Sandeau's novels were less popular than his plays. Louis-Philippe of France (October 6, 1773–August 26, 1850), served as the Orleanist king of the French from 1830 to 1848. ... Guillaume Victor Émile Augier (September 17, 1820 – October 25, 1889), was a French dramatist. ...

Sandeau had been made conservateur of the Mazarin library in 1853, elected to the Académie française in 1858, and appointed librarian of St Cloud in 1859. At the suppression of this latter office, after the fall of the Second French Empire, he was pensioned. The Académie française In the French educational system an académie LAcadémie française, or the French Academy, is the pre-eminent French learned body on matters pertaining to the French language. ... The neutrality of this article is disputed. ...

Jules Sandeau died in 1883 and was buried in the Cimetière du Montparnasse in Paris. The Cimetière du Montparnasse is a famous cemetery in the Montparnasse quarter of Paris, France. ...

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