Sarah Bernhardt as I knew her

by Mme. Pierre Berton

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SARAH BERNHARDT
AS I KNEW HER
The Memoirs of Madame Pierre Berton
as told to BASIL WOON

WITH NINETEEN ILLUSTRATIONS

LONDON: HURST & BLACKETT, LTD.
PATERNOSTER HOUSE, E.C. 4.
1923

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CONTENTS

Introduction	[vii]
Chapter I	[11]
Chapter II	[19]
Chapter III	[24]
Chapter IV	[34]
Chapter V	[45]
Chapter VI	[56]
Chapter VII	[68]
Chapter VIII	[79]
Chapter IX	[90]
Chapter X	[101]
Chapter XI	[113]
Chapter XII	[125]
Chapter XIII	[136]
Chapter XIV	[150]
Chapter XV	[160]
Chapter XVI	[171]
Chapter XVII	[182]
Chapter XVIII	[192]
Chapter XIX	[202]
Chapter XX	[212]
Chapter XXI	[223]
Chapter XXII	[232]
Chapter XXIII	[241]
Chapter XXIV	[250]
Chapter XXV	[258]
Chapter XXVI	[269]
Chapter XXVII	[279]
Chapter XXVIII	[288]
Chapter XXIX	[297]
Chapter XXX	[308]
Chapter XXXI	[315]

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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

Mme. Bernhardt in her Dressing-room during her Interpretation of La Gloire, by Maurice Rostand, in 1921
[Frontispiece]
TO FACE PAGE
Baptismal Certificate of Sarah Bernhardt, May 21st, 1846	[30]
Sketch of Thérèse Meilhan (afterwards Mme. Pierre Berton) by Georges Clairin, 1881	[42]
Sarah Bernhardt. One of the best of the earliest pictures	[64]
Pierre Berton, Husband of Mme. Berton, and one of Sarah’s Earliest Intimate Friends	[102]
Sarah Bernhardt in a Scene from La Tosca with Pierre Berton, when their Romance was at its Height	[112]
Sarah Bernhardt in Le Passant	[114]
Letter of Congratulation from Victorien Sardou	[154]
Sarah Bernhardt in Caricature	[160]
Sarah Bernhardt (aged 30) and her Son, Maurice, on the only occasion when he acted with her	[184]
Sarah Bernhardt in Théodora	[196]
Sarah Bernhardt in Hamlet	[202]
Sarah Bernhardt in Adrienne Lecouvreur	[224]
Sarah Bernhardt in Les Bouffons, 1906	[260]
Sarah Bernhardt in her Studio Dress	[280]
Mme. Bernhardt’s Sitting-room at her Last Home, 56, Boulevard Pereire, Paris	[302]