MEMORIES OF MY LIFE
[Illustration: 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
[Illustration]
D. APPLETON AND COMPANY
NEW YORK MCMVII
COPYRIGHT, 1907, BY
D. APPLETON AND COMPANY
_Published October, 1907_
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