House of George Sand

The House of George Sand is a writer residence museum within the village of Nohant within the Indre department of France. It changed into the house of George Sand a French creator and was bought with the aid of the French kingdom in 1952. The house became preserved as it became where Sand wrote lots of her books and hosted some of the maximum critical artists and writers of her time, together with Chopin, Liszt, Balzac, Turgenev and Delacroix. The creator and her family are buried in a small cemetery among the garden and the village church.

The gardens are labeled by way of the French Ministry of Culture as a few of the Notable Gardens of France. The residence is open to the general public and is managed by the Centre des monuments nationaux. The village of Nohan turned into cited in French chronicles as early as 1228. A fortified manor residence stood at the web site and was reconstructed between 1450 and 1452. Two of the original towers are a part of the farm of the prevailing chateau. In 1767, the land and house had been bought with the aid of Pierre Pearron, who reconstructed the manor in its present form.