Listed on the occasion of an excursion between friends to the Damas de la Meuse and the Han caves in Belgium at the end of September 1869, Malgrétout appeared in the ‘Revue des Oils and Mondes’ in February — March 1870. Sand’s somewhat crispy relationship with Buloz, suspected of wanting above all to satisfy its bourgeois audience, does not prevent the romancier from writing for this magazine, which she considers to be a little too ‘prude and sacred’ by moving away from the popular broad-prilly banner, which she also publishes. It has...