The Guardian UK's book section has a piece about the controversy over the proposed panthéonization of George Sand. (link via Arts & Letters Daily.)
I've been sort of loosely following this story since I first heard about it (here's an old reference to the story I had meant to post here but never got that post out of draft form ....)
My interest in the story is just that I am a big George Sand fan and -- well -- c'mon. It's an amusing sort of celebrity controversy to follow. At least to me. It's certainly much more interesting than following the gossip on Ben & J-Lo or the usual melodramas that one can't avoid hearing about no matter how much one really tries. However, I realize I'm a freak of cultural literacy references and I'm in the minority here. So, that means that unlike followers of Ben & J and other stories about related famous flavors of the day, I just won't get to see references to the George story every single day on the front page of news sources or running in the ticker on the bottom of news shows on TV.
Well, since George was once the famous flavor of her day, I figure (perhaps anachronistically) that the well-being and whereabouts of her corpse deserves to be in a news ticker and in more news gossip & dish rags. So. Guess I'll just have to do it myself in a rudimentary fashion. So, I think I'm going to try to post links to any juicy future stories I see about the fate of George's remains here.
You are all thrilled to hear it, aren't you? Half of you, no doubt, are saying "George Sand? Who's he?" Um. Sigh.
