Sarah Bernhardt tourism, Paris, France 2001
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Approximate
location [pictured] of one of Sarah Bernhardt's former residences: the rue
Auber apartment with a blvd Haussman back entry by which she saved
her son and the mother she adopted from a fire. (From 1868 until it caught
fire.)
65
rue du Provence where four-year-old Sarah Bernhardt had been abandoned
by her biological mother. (And where she jumped out of a high window to escape
her situation and get her Aunt Rosine to take her, now-injured, back to her
less-than-pleased courtesan mother who didn’t seem to intend to ever fetch
her back from the maid.)
Père
Lachaise cemetery: Sarah Bernhardt, area 44.
Sarah
Bernhardt’s artist studio at 11 blvd de Clichy.
Sarah
Bernhardt’s last residence at 56 blvd Péreire (from 1886 until her
death in 1923
Sarah's
home from 1878 to 1886 at #35 rue Fortuny.
265
rue Saint-Honoré where Bernhardt was returned to her well-off courtesan
mother, Judith "Youle" Van Hard, after Aunt Rosine had been forced to bring
the injured four-year-old home.
Sarah's
old haunt -- the Comedie Français...
The
Odéon Théâtre which Sarah Bernhardt turned into a hospital during the Franco-Prussian
War’s 1870 Siege of Paris. Sarah also served as a nurse in her make-shift
hospital.
The
purported Sarah birthplace that Paris places its plaque on, 5 rue de l'Ecole-de-Medicine...
The
Sarah Bernhardt Café at place Châtelet, next door to the Théâtre
Sarah Bernhardt