Adieu, madame
Terry Castle: Sarah Bernhardt, 4 November 2010
Sarah: The Life of Sarah Bernhardt
by Robert Gottlieb.
Yale, 233 pp., £18.99, October 2010,978 0 300 14127 6 Show More
by Robert Gottlieb.
Yale, 233 pp., £18.99, October 2010,
“... Frigidity. Bernhardt got married only once, disastrously, in 1882: to the hulking and brutish Jacques Damala, a Greek diplomat and actor with a monster morphine addiction – a sort of Missing Link type. While lampooned in Parisian high society as Monsieur Sarah Bernhardt and La Damala des Camélias, he was also rumoured, paradoxically, to be the only man ... ”