Memories of My Life: Being My Personal, Professional, and Social Recollections as Woman and ArtistBernhardt, Sarah
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Memories of My Life: Being My Personal, Professional, and Social Recollections as Woman and Artist
Bernhardt, Sarah
Actors -- Biography; Bernhardt, Sarah, 1844-1923; Women -- Biography
“Le Dépit Amoureux” X 12.860
„ 28 (Matinée) “Hernani” X 13.730
„ 30 “Ruy Blas” X 13.660
July 1 “Mercadet”
“L’été de la St. Martin” 9.850
„ 2 “Ruy Blas” X 13.160
„ 3 “Le Mariage de Victorine”
“Les Fourberies de Scapin” 10.165
„ 4 “Les Femmes Savantes;”
“L’Etincelle” 11.960
„ 5 “Les Fourchambault” 10.700
„ 5 (Matinée) “Phèdre;”
“La Joie Fait Peur” X 14.265
„ 7 “Le Marquis de Villemer” 10.565
„ 8 “L’ami Fritz” 11.005
„ 9 “Hernani” X 14.275
„ 10 “Le Sphinx” X 13.775
„ 11 “Philiberte”
“L’Etourdi” 11.500
„ 12 “Ruy Blas” X 12.660
„ 12 (Matinée) “Gringoire”
“Hernani,” Acte V
“La Bénédiction”
“Davenant”
“L’Etincelle” X 13.725
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Total receipts in francs 492.150
The average of the receipts was about 11,715 francs. These figures show
that out of the forty-three performances given by the Comédie Française,
the eighteen performances in which I took part gave an average of 13,350
francs each; while the twenty-five other performances gave an average of
10,000 francs.
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While I was in London I learned that I had lost my lawsuit, with its ...
“Inasmuch as” ... “Nevertheless” ... etc. ... “declares hereby that
Mlle. Sarah Bernhardt loses all the rights, privileges, and advantages
resulting to her profit, from the engagement which she contracted with
the company, by authentic decree of the 24th March, 1875, which condemns
her to pay to the plaintiff in his lawful quality, the sum of 100,000
francs damages....”
I gave my last performance in London the very day that the papers
published the result of this unjust verdict. I was applauded and the
public overwhelmed me with flowers.
I had taken with me, as _artistes_, Mme. Devoyod, Mary Jullien, Kalb, my
sister Jeanne, Pierre Berton, Train, Talbot, Dieudonné—all _artistes_ of
worth. I played all the pieces which I was to play in America.
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