By Robert Gottlieb
Every little thing approximately Sarah Bernhardt is attention-grabbing, from her imprecise beginning to her excellent career—redefining the very nature of her art—to her remarkable (and hugely public) romantic lifestyles to her indomitable spirit. good into her seventies, after the amputation of her leg, she used to be appearing lower than bombardment for squaddies in the course of international battle I, in addition to crisscrossing the USA on her 9th American tour.
Her kinfolk used to be additionally a resource of interest: the mummy she loved and who scorned her; her half-sisters, who died younger after lives of dissipation; and so much of all, her son, Maurice, whom she worshiped and raised as an aristocrat, within the sort applicable to his presumed father, the Belgian Prince de Ligne. just once did they quarrel—over the Dreyfus Affair. Maurice was once a right-wing snob; Sarah, consistently pleased with her Jewish historical past, was once a passionate Dreyfusard and Zolaist.
Though the Bernhardt literature is large, Gottlieb’s Sarah is the 1st English-language biography to seem in many years. Brilliantly, it tracks the trajectory in which an illegitimate—and scandalous—daughter of a courtesan reworked herself into the main well-known actress who ever lived, and right into a nationwide icon, an emblem of France.
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But things didn’t proceed in the ordinary way. One of Sarah’s strongest attachments was to her little sister Régine, who from the start was a difficult child: stubborn, demanding, with a violent temper. She, too, suffered from Youle’s lack of affection—it was always and only Jeanne, the middle sister, whom Youle cared about. But Régine attached herself passionately to Sarah, who looked after her lovingly and would often let her tag along to the theater. Every year on Molière’s birthday the entire company came forward onto the stage to salute the bust of the great writer.
Zanetto would be Sarah’s first significant trouser role; the beautiful, womanly Agar would, of course, be Silvia. According to Sarah, she read Le Passant on her way home from the theater and turned back, finding Duquesnel just about to leave. ” “Oh, no, read it here at once! ” “No, no, your voice is treacherous. ” But he agreed to read it (to himself) on the spot, and when he finished he exclaimed, “It’s delicious. ” And they agreed to try it out at once, at a benefit performance, with scenery from a recent failure and costumes that Sarah and Agar would have to pay for themselves.
Germain—le gratin. Among his close friends: Degas and the Prince of Wales. In the 1860s he was famous for his worldliness and his success with women; today he is remembered only as Sarah’s lover and as the direct model for Proust’s Charles Swann. ) The letters that Sarah wrote to Haas at this time make it clear that he is the adored one, she the adorer. “I love you. I know perfectly well that you don’t return my love but please behave as though you did. Dear friend, come to me at three o’clock.