It was while working for the Figaro that she met Honoré de Balzac
and the journalist Henri de Latouche
. Another writer who became a friend and mentor to her was critic Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve
.
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By 1831 Aurore Dudevant (later GS
) had written a novel, Aimée, which she showed to her editor
at Figaro.