Days without a Tomorrow

rue Heurtault de Lamerville

George Sand opens her Journal of a Traveller During the War on September 15, 1870, and closes it on February 10, 1871. During these six months, she will record day by day the facts, information, her thoughts, and her views on the tragedy of the 1870 war. Her point of view is essential because it comes from a witness isolated in Nohant where information reaches her only partially. The novelist has thus become an opinion journalist and a particularly modern historian in that she blends Grand History with the small. The adaptation of this reading…