Days Without a Tomorrow

rue Heurtault de Lamerville

George Sand opens her Journal of a Traveller During the War on September 15, 1870, to close it on February 10, 1871. During these six months, she will record day by day facts, information, her thoughts, and her views on the tragedy of the war of 1870. Her point of view is essential because it is that of a witness retired at Nohant where information reaches her only partially. The novelist has thus become an opinion journalist and a particularly modern historian inasmuch as she mixes grand History with the intimate. The adaptation of this reading…