My Double Life: The Memoirs of Sarah Bernhardt
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About This Book
My Double Life is the autobiography of the French actress Sarah Bernhardt, who was internationally famed during her lifetime and afterwards as one of the classical theater's all-time greatest stars. Bernhardt's memoirs are composed with a novelist's (or actress's) sense of artistry and suspense that leaves no doubt of the charisma for which she was famed in her "double life, " both on- and offstage. Yet at the same time as this book very consciously contributes to the crafting of her image, it also illuminates a whole not only the world of theater, but also the worlds of women, politics, socie...
Chapters (498)
- MY DOUBLE LIFE MEMOIRS OF SARAH BERNHARDT
- CONTENTS
- LIST OF PLATES
- I CHILDHOOD
- II AT BOARDING SCHOOL
- III CONVENT LIFE
- IV MY DÉBUT
- V THE SOLDIER’S SHAKO
- VI THE FAMILY COUNCIL AND MY FIRST VISIT TO A THEATRE
- VII MY CAREER—FIRST LESSONS
- VIII THE CONSERVATOIRE
- IX A MARRIAGE PROPOSAL AND EXAMINATIONS—THE CONSERVATOIRE
- X MY FIRST ENGAGEMENT AT THE COMÉDIE FRANÇAISE
- XI MY DÉBUT AT THE HOUSE OF MOLIÈRE, AND MY FIRST DEPARTURE THEREFROM
- XII AT THE GYMNASE THEATRE—A TRIP TO SPAIN
- XIII FROM THE PORTE ST. MARTIN THEATRE TO THE ODÉON
- XIV LE PASSANT—AT THE TUILERIES—FIRE IN MY FLAT
- XV THE FRANCO-PRUSSIAN WAR
- XVI SARAH BERNHARDT’S AMBULANCE AT THE ODÉON THEATRE
- XVII PARIS BOMBARDED
- XVIII A BOLD JOURNEY THROUGH THE GERMAN LINES
- XIX MY RETURN TO PARIS—THE COMMUNE—AT ST. GERMAIN-EN-LAYE
- XX VICTOR HUGO
- XXI A MEMORABLE SUPPER
- XXII AT THE COMÉDIE FRANÇAISE AGAIN—SCULPTURE
- XXIII A DESCENT INTO THE ENFER DU PLOGOFF—MY FIRST APPEARANCE AS PHÈDRE—THE DECORATION OF MY NEW MANSION
- XXIV ALEXANDRE DUMAS—L’ETRANGÈRE—MY SCULPTURE AT THE SALON
- XXV “HERNANI”—A TRIP IN A BALLOON
- XXVI THE COMÉDIE FRANÇAISE GOES TO LONDON
- XXVII LONDON LIFE—MY FIRST PERFORMANCE AT THE GAIETY THEATRE
- XXVIII MY PERFORMANCES IN LONDON—MY EXHIBITION—MY WILD ANIMALS—TROUBLE WITH THE COMÉDIE FRANÇAISE
- XXIX THE COMÉDIE FRANÇAISE RETURNS TO PARIS—SARAH BERNHARDT’S COMMENTS ON ACTORS AND ACTRESSES OF THE DAY
- XXX MY DEPARTURE FROM THE COMÉDIE FRANAÇISE—PREPARATIONS FOR MY FIRST AMERICAN TOUR—ANOTHER VISIT TO LONDON
- XXXI A TOUR IN DENMARK—ROYAL FAMILIES—THE “TWENTY-EIGHT DAYS” OF SARAH BERNHARDT
- XXXII EXPERIENCES AND REFLECTIONS ON BOARD SHIP FROM HÂVRE TO NEW YORK
- XXXIII ARRIVAL IN NEW YORK—AMERICAN REPORTERS—THE CUSTOM-HOUSE—PERFORMANCES IN NEW YORK—A VISIT TO EDISON AT MENLO PARK
- XXXIV AT BOSTON—STORY OF THE WHALE
- XXXV MONTREAL’S GRAND RECEPTION—THE POET FRÉCHETTE—AN ESCAPADE ON THE ST. LAWRENCE RIVER
- XXXVI SPRINGFIELD—BALTIMORE—PHILADELPHIA—CHICAGO—ADVENTURES BETWEEN ST. LOUIS AND CINCINNATI—CAPITAL PUNISHMENT
- XXXVII NEW ORLEANS AND OTHER AMERICAN CITIES—A VISIT TO THE FALLS OF NIAGARA
- XXXVIII THE RETURN TO FRANCE—THE WELCOME AT HÂVRE
- INDEX
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