A French novelist born in Paris as Amantine Aurore Lucile Dupin. Her father was an officer in the Imperial Army. She lived under the care of her grandmother and then entered a convent in Paris from 1818 to 1820. She co-wrote her first novel "Rose et Blanche" with Jules Sandeau. Her other literary works include The Bagpipers (1853), Indiana (1832) and A Winter in Majorca (1841). She died on June 8, 1876.