Saturday, 3 October 2026

Sarah Bernhardt at Thirty, in Her Coffin

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Sarah Bernhardt at Thirty, in Her Coffin

She is not dead. Merely asleep. Or rather, posing for a photograph in the character of a woman lying in a coffin. She died, after all, at 78.

Until then she simply liked to lie in a coffin. And she had one installed at home as a bed.

A fool of the first water

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