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Memories of My Life / Being My Personal, Professional, and Social Recollections as Woman and Artist

Chapter 2: LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
By Sarah Bernhardt
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The memoir traces an artist’s life from a childhood marked by family upheaval and convent schooling through formal theatrical training and early stage appearances. It recounts practical struggles in building a career—auditions, rivalries, managerial disputes—and the shaping of a commanding public persona, alongside creative experiments and the responsibilities of leading a theatrical enterprise. Interwoven are personal anecdotes about friendships, losses, domestic arrangements, and reflections on discipline, artistry, and the costs and satisfactions of a life lived before the public.

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

FACING PAGE
Sarah Bernhardt as Gismonda, from a Painting by Chartran Frontispiece
Rear View of Grandchamps Convent, Versailles 20
Sarah Bernhardt and Her Mother 36
Le Conservatoire National de Musique et de Déclamation, Paris 80
Sarah Bernhardt in the Hands of her Coiffeur 86
Sarah Bernhardt when She Left the Conservatory 94
Sarah Bernhardt at the Time of Her Début in “Les Femmes Savantes” 104
Sarah Bernhardt in “François le Champi” 134
An Early Portrait of Sarah Bernhardt 170
Sarah Bernhardt in Riding Habit 232
Skull in Madame Bernhardt’s Library, with Autograph Verses by Victor Hugo 248
“Ophelia”—Sculpture by Sarah Bernhardt 258
Sarah Bernhardt in Her Coffin 270
Sarah Bernhardt Painting, 1878–9 280
Sarah Bernhardt at Work on Her “Mêdée” 288
Sarah Bernhardt, Portrait by Parrott, 1875—in the Comédie Française, Paris 296
Sarah Bernhardt, Portrait by Clairin 304
Sarah Bernhardt, from an Oil Painting by Mlle. Louise Abbéma 332
Sarah Bernhardt as the Duc de Richelieu 338
Sarah Bernhardt, 1879 346
The Celebrated Portrait of Sarah Bernhardt, Painted by Jules Bastien-Lepage 352
Mme. Sarah Bernhardt and Members of Her Company Out Shooting 362
Bust of Victorien Sardou by Sarah Bernhardt 366
Sarah Bernhardt in Travelling Costume, 1880 378
Sarah Bernhardt at Home, by Walter Spindler 390
Sarah Bernhardt as Doña Sol in “Hernani” 402
Corner in Sarah Bernhardt’s Paris Home, Showing Painting by Chartran 410
Library in Madame Bernhardt’s House, Paris 420
Corner in Sarah Bernhardt’s Library, Showing Madame Bernhardt’s Writing Table on the Left 426
Théâtre Sarah Bernhardt, Paris 436
Foyer in Madame Bernhardt’s Theater, Paris 442
Sarah Bernhardt in “L’Aiglon”—Painting by G. Clairin 450