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Pierre Henri Leroux ( 7 April 1797  12 April 1871 ), ___MASK83___ philosopher , and political economist , was born at Bercy , now a part of Paris , the son of an artisan . A philosopher is someone who practices philosophy , which involves rational inquiry into areas that are outside of either theology or science . The term " philosopher " comes from the Ancient ___MASK14___ (" philosophos ") meaning " lover of wisdom ". The coining of the term has been attributed to the ___MASK14___ thinker Pythagoras ( 6th century BC ). Alfred Louis Charles de Musset - Pathay ( 11 December 1810  2 May 1857 ) was a ___MASK83___ dramatist , poet , and novelist . Along with his poetry , he is known for writing the autobiographical novel " La Confession d ' un enfant du siècle " (" The Confession of a Child of the Century "). Consuelo is a novel by George Sand , first published serially in 1842 - 1843 in La Revue indépendante , a periodical founded in 1841 by Sand , Pierre Leroux and Louis Viardot . According to the Nuttall Encyclopædia , it is `` ( Sand ' s ) masterpiece ; the impersonation of the triumph of moral purity over manifold temptations . '' The character of Consuelo was supposedly modeled after Louis Viardot ' s wife , the soprano Pauline Viardot . Pauline Viardot was a good friend of both Sand ' s and of her lover , Frédéric Chopin . Amantine - Lucile - Aurore Dupin ( 1 July 1804  8 June 1876 ), best known by her pseudonym George Sand , was a ___MASK83___ novelist and memoirist . She is equally well known for her much publicized romantic affairs with a number of artists , including Polish - ___MASK83___ composer and pianist Frédéric Chopin and the writer Alfred de Musset . Frédéric François Chopin ( 1 March 181017 October 1849 ), born Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin , was a ___MASK66___ composer and virtuoso pianist of the Romantic era who wrote primarily for the solo piano . He gained and has maintained renown worldwide as a leading musician of his era , whose " poetic genius was based on a professional technique that was without equal in his generation ." Chopin was born in what was then the Duchy of Warsaw and grew up in Warsaw , which in 1815 became part of Congress Poland . A child prodigy , he completed his musical education and composed his earlier works in Warsaw before leaving Poland at the age of 20 , less than a month before the outbreak of the November 1830 Uprising .