In Paris, his box at the Théâtre de la Ville has been put on hold.
It is lacking in the nevertheless very rich exhibition that the Petit Palais devotes to Sarah Bernhardt (1844-1923) for the centenary of her death.
Happy star but poor name: it is no longer that of the hall of the Place du Châtelet, withdrawn in 1941 because of the Jewish origins of the actress.
In the photographs that open the course, Nadar captures her at 15, already as a goddess, bare shoulders.
The antique drapery is only a pretext for alluring…and theatrical effects!
Her freckles are Jean-Léon Gérôme who makes her shine a little further, with one of her firefighter busts that would look kitsch if the environment wasn't up to it.
"Influencer before the letter"
Because the scenography is as ambitious as it is eccentric, like the lady.
The director of the place, Annick Lemoine, curator with two curators, was right to go all out for the one that Proust drew inspiration for his character from La Berma in La
Recherche
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