Sarah Bernhardt
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Sarah Bernhardt was a French stage actress who starred in some of the most popular French plays of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, including La Dame aux Camélias by Alexandre Dumas fils, Ruy B
Bernhardt in 1880
Bernhardt with her mother
Debut of Bernhardt in Les Femmes Savantes at the Comédie-Française, 1862
Sarah Bernhardt in 1864; age 20, by photographer Félix Nadar
Jacques Damala
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Aristides Damalas, known in France by the stage name Jacques Damala, was a Greek military officer-turned-actor, and husband of Sarah Bernhardt in his last years. Damala's characterisation by modern re
Sarah Bernhardt
…refused to play was Germany, due to the German annexation of French territory after the 1870–71 Franco-Prussian War. Just before the tour began, she met Jacques Damala, who went with her as leading man and then, for eight months, became her first and only husband. When she returned to Paris, she was offered a new role…
Lithograph of Damalas from the magazine Poikili Stoa, 1884.
Jacques Damala
Damala with Sarah Bernhardt and her family.
Jane Hading (left) and Damala in the play Le Maître de Forges, c. 1883.