SAND, GEORGE. 



SANTA ANNA, ANTONIO L. DE. 715 



Revolution of 1848 excited George Sand's mind. 

 Slu- throw lift-self with the utmost ardor into 

 the revolutionary movement, writing tho intro- 

 duction to Ledru-Rollin's "Bulletins do lu R6- 

 inililiqiK- " and two "Lettresau Peuplo." She 

 contributed to liarbe's Commune de I'ari*, and 

 t'ouiiilod herself a paper, La Cause du Peuple, 

 of wliidi, however, only three numbers ap- 

 piMivd. In 1850 she translated Joseph Maz- 

 zini's " Republic and Kingdom in Italy "into 

 French, and, fearing for her safety after the 

 coup-d'etat, went to Belgium ; from there, how- 

 o\vr, she soon returned. In 1853-'55 she pub- 

 lished in t\\Q feuilleton of La Prense tho history 

 of her life, which afterward appeared in twenty 

 volumes. This book was read with great in- 

 terest at the time, and created considerable ex- 

 riti-i iii-iit. In 1859 she published in the Revue 

 des Deux Monde* a novel, entitled " Elle et Liii," 

 in which she attacked Alfred de Mussst, who 

 had died some time before. This book created 

 a storm of indignation, and was answered most 

 effectively by Paul de Musset.in u Lui et Elle," 

 in which he placed the assertions of George 

 San 1 in a different light, and attempted to 

 vindicate his brother's character. Since this 

 time she lived in comparative retirement, 

 coming only once more before the public on 

 the occasion of the War of 1870. When this 

 war broke out she wrote an eloquent appeal 

 in behalf of peace, " whose continuance alone 

 would allow humanity to solve the social prob- 

 lems now at hand, and to emancipate itself 

 finally from the double-headed politico-reli- 

 gious yoke of kings and priests." But though 

 her own region escaped the turmoil of war, 

 she had the sorrow of witnessing for the third 

 time the invasion, crushing defeat, and dis- 

 memberment of France. She went to Tours, 

 and proceeded along the French lines as far as 

 she was permitted to go, taking notes and 

 sketches of the heart-rending scenes of ruin 

 and desolation. When the war was over, she 

 published in the Revue des Deux Mondes her 

 "Journal d'un Voyageur pendant la Guerre." 

 After this time she did not appear before the 



Sublic, but lived in quiet retirement until her 

 eath. Among her other works are: "Spiri- 

 dion" (1839), "Les Sept Oordes de la Lyre" 

 (1840), "Jeanne" (8 vols., 1844), "Lucrezia 

 Floriani," " Le Picoinino," " La petite Fadette," 

 "La Filleule," " Mont Reviohe," "Les Maitres 

 sonneurs" (1853), "Joan de la Roche" (1860), 

 "La Ville noire" (1861), "Le Marquis de 

 Villemer " (1862), " Mademoiselle de la Quinti- 

 nie " (1863), " La Confession d'une jeune Fille " 

 (1884), and " L6gendes rustiques"(1861), which 

 she edited together with her son Maurice. 

 During the greater part of her life she wore a 

 mixed suit made of black cloth, woman's skirt 

 with largo cloth buttons, and fastened with a 

 black-leather belt ; a man's square jacket, made 

 of the same stuff; a man's shirt, with collar 

 and silk necktie. When out of doors she wore 

 ix mousqnetaire's hat. For many years she had 

 kept only a pied-a-terre in the Rue Racine, the 



heart of the Quartier Latin, where she enjoyed 

 a sort of worship from thousand* of HtudciiU. 

 Her benevolence was extreme, and, like the 

 elder Dumas, she was gifted with an extremely 

 kind heart. She always suppressed hatred 

 toward any person, even her enemies. But 

 there were two things which she cordially de- 

 tested, church-bells and guns, "the one and 

 the other made with the same dark, gloomy 

 metal, bronze, and symbolizing those two im- 

 placable enemies of liberty and fraternity, 

 priestcraft and militarism." 



SANDHURST, WILLIAM ROSK MANSFIELD, 

 Baron, a British general, born in 1819; died 

 June 23, 1876. After passing through the 

 Royal Military College at Sandhurst, he entered 

 tho Fifty-third Regiment in 1835. In the rank 

 of captain in the Fifty-third he entered upon 

 his first war-service in the Sutlej campaign of 

 1846. He was present at the battles of Bud- 

 diwal, Aliwal, and Sobraon, in the last of 

 which he acted as aide-de-camp to the com- 

 mander-in-chief. In the subsequent Punjaub 

 campaign of 1849, Major Mansfield was in com- 

 mand of the Fifty-third, and was present at 

 the battle of Guzerat. He was next employed 

 on the Punjaub frontier in 1851-'52, sometimes 

 in command of the Fifty-third, and sometimes 

 attached to the staff of Sir Colin Campbell, 

 who commanded the forces ; and he was pres- 

 ent at the affairs of Nawadund, Praiighur, and 

 Skarcote. In June, 1855, he was attached to 

 the embassy at Constantinople, with the rank 

 of brigadier-general. When Sir Colin Camp- 

 bell was appointed to the command of the army 

 in India at the crisis of the mutiny, he selected 

 Colonel Mansfield as chief of staff. As major- 

 general he served throughout the mutiny. He 

 was at the relief of Lucknow, at the battle of 

 Cawnpore, where he was wounded, at the ad- 

 vance on Futtehghur, the campaign in Rohil- 

 ound, the battle of Bareilly, and at Shahjehan- 

 poor; he served in the campaign in Oude in 

 1859, and was present at all the affairs which 

 resulted in the subjugation of that province. 

 He received repeated acknowledgments from 

 his commanding officer, and in 1859 received 

 the thanks of both Houses of Parliament. In 

 1860 he was appointed to the command of the 

 troops in Bombay Presidency, and in 1865 com- 

 mander-in-chief in India, which position he held 

 up to 1870, when, upon his retirement from the 

 service, he was raised to the peerage. He was 

 a G. C. B. and a G. C. S. I., a privy councilor 

 for Ireland, and general commanding the forces 

 in Ireland from 1870 to 1875. 



SANTA ANNA, ANTONIO LOPKZ DE, a Mex- 

 ican general ; died in the city of Mexico, June 



20, 1876. He was born in Jalapa, February 



21, 1798. He began his military career ia 

 1821 against the Royalists, and after some suc- 

 cess was given the command of Vera Cruz 

 (1822); but insubordination led to his dismis- 

 sal, and he took revenge by aiding in the 

 downfall of the Emperor Iturbide. Becoming; 

 chief of the Federal party in the succeeding 



