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In the dining-room of a fine house on the Boulevard Raspail all the Darbois family were gathered together about the round table, on which a white oil cloth bordered with gold-medallioned portraits of the line of French kings served as table cover at family meals. The Darbois family consisted of François Darbois, professor of philosophy, a scholar of eminence and distinction; of Madame Darbois, his wife, a charming gentle little creature, without any pretentions; of Philippe Renaud, brother of Madame Darbois, an honest and able business man; of his son, Maurice Renaud, twenty-two and a painter, a fine youth filled with confidence because of the success he had just achieved at the last Salon; of a distant cousin, the family counsellor, a tyrannical landlord and self-centered bachelor, Adhemar Meydieux, and the child of whom he was godfather, and around whom all this particular little world revolved.

Product Description: Née dans un milieu très mondain, élevée entre une nourrice bretonne et un couvent versaillais, résolue à entrer dans les ordres avant d’être envoyée au Conservatoire pour devenir comédienne, entrée deux fois à la Comédie Française qu’elle quitta deux fois avec pertes et fracas, devenue entre temps une étoile montante de la scène, dont l’éclat ne cessera plus jamais de croître pour mieux éblouir ou exaspérer ses contemporains, artiste accomplie, sculpteur, peintre, tragédienne jusqu’au bout des doigts, Sarah Bernhardt est un des personnages les plus fascinants de sa fascinante époque...read more

Product Description: Extrait Ma mère adorait voyager. Elle allait d’Espagne en Angleterre ; de Londres à Paris ; de Paris à Berlin. De là, à Christiania ; puis revenait m’embrasser et repartait pour la Hollande, son pays natal. Elle envoyait à ma nourrice : des vêtements pour elle, et des gâteaux pour moi...read more

Product Description: My Double Life

Product Description: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work...read more

Product Description: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work...read more

Product Description: Book by Bernhardt, Sarah