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Sarah Bernhardt was a French stage actress who starred in some of the most famous French plays of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. This book presents Sarah Bernhard telling her life story to her acquaintance Jules Huret. A reader learns the interesting facts of her personal life, like the joy of being the eleventh child in a family and Berhard's habit of taking her son's first shirt on travels.
Reproduction of the original: My Double Life by Sarah Bernhardt
A biography of the French actress, Sarah Bernhardt.
" My mother was fond of traveling: she would go from Spain to England, from London to Paris, from Paris to Berlin, and from there to Christiania; then she would come back, embrace me, and set out again for Holland, her native country. She used to send my nurse clothing for herself and cakes for me. To one of my aunts she would write: “Look after little Sarah; I shall return in a month’s time.” A month later she would write to another of her sisters: “Go and see the child at her nurse’s; I shall be back in a couple of weeks." My mother’s age was nineteen; I was three years old, and my two aunts were seventeen and twenty years of age; another aunt was fifteen, and the eldest was twenty-eight, but the latter lived at Martinique, and was the mother of six children. My grandmother was blind, my grandfather dead, and my father had been in China for the last two years. I have no idea why he had gone there." (...)