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MEMORIES OF MY LIFE
SARAH BERNHARDT AS GISMONDA, FROM A PAINTING BY CHARTRAN.
MEMORIES OF MY LIFE
Being my Personal, Professional, and Social Recollections as Woman and Artist
By
SARAH BERNHARDT
D. APPLETON AND COMPANY
NEW YORK MCMVII
Copyright, 1907, by
D. APPLETON AND COMPANY
Published October, 1907
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CONTENTS
| CHAPTER I | |
| MY AUNTS | |
| PAGE | |
|---|---|
| My mother and her sisters—The “mask of butter”—The beauty of my mother—Away with my nurse—Life in a concierge’s lodge—My aunt comes for me—An accident—I must go to school—Off for Auteuil—Mme. Fressard and her boarding school—I am left alone—Life at the pension—My schoolmates—Back to Aunt Rosine—My father and Rossini—My disagreeable Aunt Faure—My delightful Uncle Faure | 1–16 |
| CHAPTER II | |
| I BEGIN MY CONVENT LIFE | |
| Grandchamps Convent—My terror of the cloister—The lovely Mother Superior—The dormitory—The garden—Farewell to my father—My new schoolmates—Compulsory soup—The despised and the beloved Sister—Pets and playthings—I rescue a playmate—Preparations for the archbishop’s visit—The play in which I was not given a part—My failure as a costumer—How I got a part—Monseigneur’s arrival—The performance—The tragedy of Monseigneur Sibour—My father dies—I am baptized and confirmed | 17–38 |
| CHAPTER III | |
| A PRANK AND ITS RESULTS | |
| In the Pyrénées—Goat-herding and vacation joys—Back to the convent—The Croizettes—A soldier in the convent—How I shocked the nuns—“The Angel Raphael” and César—A night of horror—I leave the convent forever—My amb ... BU KİTABI OKUMAK İÇİN ÜYE OLUN VEYA GİRİŞ YAPIN!Sitemize Üyelik ÜCRETSİZDİR! | |