Rick Steves Paris 2019 by Rick Steves & Steve Smith & Gene Openshaw

Author:Rick Steves & Steve Smith & Gene Openshaw
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Avalon Publishing
Published: 2018-03-01T16:00:00+00:00

In 1837, the quiet, refined, dreamy-eyed genius met the scandalous, assertive, stormy novelist George Sand (see here of the Left Bank Walk chapter). Sand was swept away by Chopin’s music and artistic nature. She pursued him, and sparks flew. Though the romance faded quickly, they continued living together for nearly a decade in an increasingly bitter love-hate relationship. When Chopin developed tuberculosis, Sand nursed him for years (Chopin complained she was killing him). Sand finally left, Chopin was devastated, and he died two years later at age 39. At the funeral, they played perhaps Chopin’s most famous piece, the Funeral March (it’s that 11-note dirge that everyone knows). The grave contains Chopin’s body, but his heart lies in Warsaw, embedded in a church column.

“The earth is suffocating. Swear to make them cut me open, so that I won’t be buried alive.”

—Chopin, on his deathbed

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