Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 233, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 October 1914 — Bernhardt’s Long Career. [ARTICLE]

Bernhardt’s Long Career.

At the time of the Franco-Prussian war, in 1870, Sarah Bernhardt left the stage and became a hospital nurse, where she did excellent work among the wounded. After this she entered the Comedle Francalse, where, in the character of Dona Sol, in Hemani, she was -first pronounced great by Paris. Sarah was the daughter of a French lawyer and a Dutch Jewess and first saw the light of day In 1844.