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Félicien Mallefille
Jean Pierre Félicien Mallefille (May 3, 1813 – November 24, 1868) was a French novelist and playwright.
Mallefille was born in Mauritius. He wrote a number of plays, including "Glenarvon" (1835), "Les sept enfants de Lara" (1836), "Le cœur et la dot" (1852), and "Les sceptiques" (1867), as well as two comedies, and two novels, "Le collier" (1845) and "La confession du
), where, together with Sand's two children, they had journeyed in the hope of improving the health of Chopin and that of Sand's 15-year-old son Maurice, and also to escape the threats of Sand's former lover Félicien Mallefille. After discovering that the couple were not married, the deeply traditional Catholic people of Majorca became inhospitable, making accommodation difficult to find. This compelled the group to take lodgings in a former Carthusian monastery in Valldemossa, which gave little shelter from the cold winter weather.
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