Casimir Dudevant

{{Short description|Husband of George Sand}}

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François Casimir Dudevant (6 July 1795 – 8 March 1871){{cite book |last1=Feret |first1=Edouard |title=Statistique générale, topographique, scientifique, administrative, industrielle, commerciale, agricole, historique, archéologique et biographique du département de la Gironde |date=1889 |publisher=Féret |page=206 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=G0RBAAAAYAAJ&q=Fran%C3%A7ois+Casimir+Dudevant+++7+Mar+1871&pg=PA206 |accessdate=19 December 2019 |language=fr}} was the illegitimate son of Baron Jean-François Dudevant (1754–1826),{{cite web |url=http://www.culture.gouv.fr/public/mistral/leonore_fr?ACTION=RETROUVER&FIELD_1=Cnoms&VALUE_1=Dudevant&FIELD_2=PRENOMS&VALUE_2=&FIELD_3=DATE%2dNSS&VALUE_3=&FIELD_4=LIEU%2dNSS&VALUE_4=&FIELD_5=Nom%20de%20jeune%20fille&VALUE_5=&FIELD_6=SEXE&VALUE_6=%20&FIELD_7=COTE&VALUE_7=&NUMBER=1&GRP=0&REQ=%28%28Dudevant%29%20%3aNOM%2cNOM2%2cNOM%2dJF%2cNOM%2dMARI%2cSURNOM%2cNOTES%20%29&USRNAME=nobody&USRPWD=4%24%2534P&SPEC=9&SYN=1&IMLY=&MAX1=1&MAX2=1&MAX3=100&DOM=All |title=Jean-François Dudevant |work=www.culture.gouv.fr |accessdate=2017-10-03}} a French military officer, and his mistress Augustine Soulé.{{cite web |url=http://www.georgesand.culture.fr/fr/trans/ent/naissance_casimir_1.htm |title=François Casimir Dudevant |work=www.georgesand.culture.fr |accessdate=2017-10-03}}

On 10 December 1822, Dudevant married Aurore Dupin, who became well known as an author using the name George Sand. Before separating in 1830, they had two children: Maurice (1823–1889) and Solange (1828–1899), who married the artist Auguste Clésinger in 1847.

Dudevant was born in Guillery and died in Barbaste.