隋風(fēng)潛 選注

Discreet nearly to a fault， shy of public performance，delicate and sickly，F(xiàn)rédéric Chopin was perhaps the last man in Europe likely to keep company with the Continent's most notorious woman. \"Something about her repels me，\" he wrote to his family after first meeting George Sand. Her reputation as a cigar-toting sexual outlaw was hardly calculated to appeal to a man of his tastes.