 Fuller went on to France, where she confirmed that Paris was indeed the cultural capital of the world; she enjoyed the music and fine arts there as well as the literature and philosophy she was accustomed to engaging. She contrived to meet the woman who had adopted the pen name George Sand and become one the most popular and successful writers in all Europe, along with her current lover, Frederic Chopin. More significant politically was her relationship with Adam Mickiewicz, the exiled Polish Romantic poet-turned- revolutionary, striving to achieve Polish independence from Russia and Austria. Fuller had admired him even before they met in France. His social democracy appealed to her and so did his Romantic religious passion. It seemed like the two of them might form a bond both sexually romantic and philosophically Romantic—but Mickiewicz was already married. Fuller moved on to the Italian peninsula.