Chopin left Nohant.
He will never go back there. The marriage of Solange is always of topicality. A sighing first was returned to the calends, and certain Clésinger, sculptor of its state, is had a presentiment of.
Chopin forever loved this “mason stone”, but he does not say anything. He is alone in Paris and waits until confidence returns. Solange in tomb in love, and in spite of the reserve of George, decides to marry it.
George calls her Maurice son, then in Holland, with the rescue while specifying to him not to speak about it in Chopin. ” That does not look at it " writes it with her son.
It takes despite everything the defense of Solange. It is at the time of this intervention (August 1847) that the rupture between Chopin and Sand was consumed. The letter of rupture of George is atrocious.
Chopin will make it read in Delacroix. “Poor woman” will say it. and Chopin will add: ” eight years of arranged life it was too " the page is turned except in the heart of Chopin.
He gives his last Parisian concert on February 16, 1848, at Pleyel. Eight days later Louis-Philippe fell. .
Year 1848 is announced very badly for the artists and still more for Chopin, who lives with this wound in the heart, and the phthisis against which he does not fight even any more. .
It is well accomodated by the English aristocracy, it plays in front of the queen Victoria and prince Albert, meets Dickens. He obliges to give public and private concerts.
“I am astonished by such an eagerness because I play less although formerly”, he writes.
On August 9 it leaves England for Scotland. It spends a few months to Edinburgh, to Stirling and returns to London at the beginning of October.
“people strike me with their useless solicitude. I only feel, only, only, although surrounded”.
Soon it is again overpowered by tiredness. Breathlessness, headaches, bronchitis, cold, all symptoms usual. It is looked after by a homeopath.
“I never yet cursed anybody, but in this moment all is to me at this unbearable point that would relieve me if I could curse Lucrezia” (George Sand)
It does not cease thinking of Paris.
“English is different from French, to which I am attached as to the miens”
The doctor of the queen advises to him to leave London.
“One day more here and I not died, but insane”
Its appointed doctor died. “Him only” says it could look after to me. For this last winter the newspaper of Delacroix is the biographical independent source. .
To move away it from the cholera epidemic one installs it in Chaillot. He walks a little in wood and especially receives the ceaseless visits admirors.
In May it burned its manuscripts. It then tried to write a method for piano, but it undoubtedly knew that it would not have time to complete it, and the idea to leave something of imperfect was unbearable for him.
Towards the end of June he wanted absolutely to re-examine to them his, as if he felt that the end approached. He finally decided to call his sister. He spent two days to write the letter. It is not the letter of one dying.
“The cypresses have their whims, my whim is to have to you at home,….I sat with the living room from where I admire my five windows the panorama of any Paris”
Louise arrives on August 8, 1849.
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