The French actress Sarah Bernhardt (1844-1923) ... Emerson mentions “a man of wit” who is “one of the celebrities of wealth and fashion,” but still feels like “a low plebeian” when he ...

Bernhardt was unapologetically, and publicly, promiscuous. It is thought her lovers included Victor Hugo—when she was 27 and he 70—Gustave Doré and the Prince of Wales, as well as a number of ...

Sarah Bernhardt, by contrast, ... And when the 38-year-old star married a 27-year-old man in 1882, the news traveled almost instantly from London to Rio de Janeiro to Chattanooga, Tennessee.

In 1874, Sarah Bernhardt wrote a letter to Jean Mounet-Sully, her lover and leading man, in which this great French actress and self-dramatist seemed, for once, to stop performing.

There aren`t too many theatergoers left who remember seeing ”the Divine Sarah” Bernhardt in performance-she began her last, 18-month American tour in 1916-but there remain many survivin… ...

PARIS (AP) — The pioneering French stage star Sarah Bernhardt was one of the world’s most famous women by the time of her death in 1923 — a status she owed not just to acting talent but her ...

Acclaimed actor Sarah Bernhardt, third from left, performs at San Quentin in 1913. (Courtesy of Marin History Museum) ... Marin detectives link Petaluma man to opioid overdose.

A marble bust of Sarah Bernhardt, by Jean-Leon Gerome, 1895, is photographed during the "Sarah Bernhardt, and the woman created the star" exhibition at the Petit Palais museum in Paris, Friday ...

A dress worn by Sarah Bernhardt is displayed during the "Sarah Bernhardt, and the woman created the star" exhibition at the Petit Palais museum in Paris, Friday, April 28, 2023.