Sarah bernhardt actresses biography book

A very interesting book on a very fascinating woman. There are so many ways to describe Sarah Bernhardt, so many adjectives, she lived through quite extrodinary time period.

She saw the ravages of war of the Franco-Prussian war and if that was not bad enough the prolonged horrors of the First World War. She experienced the scandlous Captain Defreyus fiasco, an innocent man not only wrongfully accused and imprisoned but a joint nightmare for all peoples of Jewish faith, birth or even partial birth or faith and even those that were not but suspected of being Jews because of how their facial characteristics were.

Sarah bernhardt

She rode the tide politically and socially as her own private life was as a tidal wave. The only pity is that I have only heard a snatch of her voice on Youtube and what people have said only gives a glimmer as to the kind of person that she was, or as an actress persons.

As long as she had been an actress it is hard to kno