Sarah Bernhardt as I knew her

Chapter 36: Transcriber’s Notes

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A close friend and confidante recounts the life and career of a celebrated actress, revealing previously private facts about her birth, childhood, relationships, artistic struggles, and rise to international fame. The memoir blends personal recollection and documentary material to portray her temperament—ambitious, vain, brilliant—as well as episodes of scandal, illegitimacy, and public attack that shaped her career. It traces early mentorships, professional rivalries, major roles and tours, and the author's pledge of secrecy followed by a decision to publish after the actress's death. The volume is arranged chronologically and supplemented with illustrations and letters that illuminate private moments and stage achievements.

Transcriber’s Notes

Punctuation, hyphenation, and spelling were made consistent when a predominant preference was found in the original book; otherwise they were not changed.

Simple typographical errors were corrected; unbalanced quotation marks were remedied when the change was obvious, and otherwise left unbalanced. Accent marks in French words have not been changed, added, or removed.

Illustrations in this eBook have been positioned between paragraphs and outside quotations. In versions of this eBook that support hyperlinks, the page references in the List of Illustrations lead to the corresponding illustrations.

The original captions of most illustrations included the page numbers they faced. Those numbers have been removed from the captions in this eBook, but some versions include the page numbers of nearby text.