Jean-François-Maurice-Arnauld Dudevant, known as Baron Dudevant but better known by the pseudonym Maurice Sand (30 June 1823 – 4 September 1889), was a French writer, artist and entomologist. He studied art under Eugène Delacroix and also experimented in various other subjects, including geology and

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. He was the elder child and only son of George Sand, a French novelist and feminist, and her husband, Baron François Casimir Dudevant. In addition to his numerous novels, he is best remembered for his monumental study of commedia dell'arte – ''Masques et bouffons (comédie italienne)'', 1860.''Masques et bouffons (comédie italienne)'' Online
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Works

* ''Callirhoé'', Paris, M. Lévy frères, 1864 *
Catalogue raisonné des lépidoptères du Berry & de l'Auvergne
', Paris, E. Deyrolle, 1879 * ''George Sand et le Théâtre de Nohant'', Paris, les Cent une, 1930 * ''La Fille du singe'', Paris, P. Ollendorff, 1886 * ''Le Coq aux cheveux d'or'', Paris, Librairie Internationale, 1867 * ''Le Québec : lettres de voyage'', 1862; réimp. Paris, Magellan & Cie, 2006 * ''Le Théâtre des marionnettes'', Paris, Calmann Lévy, 1890 * ''L'Atelier d'Eugène Delacroix de 1839 à 1848'', Paris, Fondation George et Maurice Sand, 1963 * ''L'Augusta'', Paris, Michel Lévy frères, 1872 * ''Mademoiselle Azote. André Beauvray'', Paris, Lévy, 1870 * ''Mademoiselle de Cérignan'', Paris, Michel-Lévy frères, 1874 * ''Masques et bouffons (comédie italienne)'', texte et dessins, préf. George Sand, 1860 * ''Miss Mary'', Paris, Michel Lévy frères, 1868 * ''Raoul de la Chastre : aventures de guerre et d'amour'', Paris, M. Lévy frères, 1865 * ''Recueil des principaux types créés avec leurs costumes sur le théâtre de Nohant'', .l. s.n. 1846–1886 * ''Six mille lieues à toute vapeur'', Paris, M. Lévy frères, 1873; réimp. Paris, Guénégaud, 2000 * ''Le Monde des Papillons, préface de George Sand, suivi de l'Histoire naturelle des Lépidoptères d'Europe par A. Depuiset'', Paris, Rothschild, 1867

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* * * Maurice Sand Papers. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University. {{DEFAULTSORT:Sand, Maurice 1823 births 1889 deaths Writers from Paris Commedia dell'arte French barons French illustrators 19th-century French novelists French male novelists 19th-century French male writers