Victorien Sardou was a French dramatist. He is best remembered today for his development, along with Eugène Scribe, of the well-made play. He also wrote several plays that were made into popular 19th-
Sardou in 1880
Commemorative plaque at the house in the 4th arrondissement of Paris, where Sardou was born
Sarah Bernhardt in the title role of Sardou's Théodora in 1884
A sketch of Sardou from 1899
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