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By Elizabeth Silverthorne

История из серии (Женщины в искусстве) Sarah Bernhardt - Сара Бернарфранцузская актриса стадии конца 19 и начало 20 веков, огромный талант и страстный, огненный характер. Gr 6 Up-These sequence entries serve a twin function by means of introducing readers to robust girl figures in addition to to consummate artists who made a long-lasting influence. Gaines seeks to discover the reality approximately her topics lifestyles, a lot of which used to be fabricated by means of Chanel herself. Her concepts in type with her construction of her signature perfume, Chanel No. five, emblazoned her identify onto the minds of a global public. Jeremy Walliss biography (Heinemann Library, 2001) supplies a few various information on Chanels lifestyles and contains an intensive thesaurus. Gaines doesnt conceal any new flooring, yet her quantity is for a touch older viewers. Silverthorne portrays the most appropriate French level actress of the past due nineteenth and early twentieth centuries as a huge expertise with a passionate, fiery nature. Bernhardts courting with the cherished monster, the identify she dubbed her audiences, is proven to be possibly the main major one in all her lifestyles. She drew upon the publics fascination together with her and used to be named by way of journalists because the maximum of French ambassadors. The authors entire examine Bernhardts existence, loves, triumphs, and disappointments will attract a person attracted to the degree, theater historical past, and nice actors. either titles comprise an array of vibrant images of the ladies of their top and glory. The volumes are good laid out, effortless to stick to, and visually beautiful. first-class additions to any assortment

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In addition to Clairin’s sketchpad, their supplies included a telescope and a picnic hamper. When the passengers were in the gondola, Godard freed the anchor and vaulted aboard. He tossed sandbags over the side, and the Doña Sol set sail over Paris. As they drifted over the Père Lachaise Cemetery, Bernhardt tossed flowers in the direction of Régina’s and Judith’s graves, the latter having died two years before. B ernhardt capitalized on her balloon caper by writing a delightful book about it. Profusely illustrated with charming pictures by Clairin, the book sold well.

Judith said that Régina, like Sarah’s sister Jeanne, had arrived in a tulip. No one seemed concerned that neither child had a father to claim as her own. What bothered Sarah was that her mother was openly and almost exclusively devoted to the beautiful Jeanne. The needs of her oldest daughter seemed to concern Judith less than ever. It’s small wonder that the abandoned child became increasingly influenced by the Christian faith with which she was surrounded. She loved the beauty of the rituals, the candles, the Childhood Bernhardt during her 1891 world tour.

Still, the undertaking was tremendous—to perfect the role’s gestures and speeches in only three days. It helped that Mounet-Sully was cast opposite her as the love object, Hippolytus. Despite an incipient attack of stage fright, Bernhardt gave a dazzling performance that won a thunderous ovation from the audience and rave reviews from critics. It was the first of many triumphs in the role. In Skinner’s words, “Over the years Sarah Bernhardt as Phèdre was to become a sort of national institution which 59 60 SARAH BERNHARDT Bernhardt in Jean Racine’s Phèdre.

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