
Sarah Bernhardt
The History Chicks : A Women's History Podcast
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'Catholic'
At 12, she was baptized. She took first communion and was confirmed shortly thereafter. When one of her pets died, she would take all those kids and organize a full on catholic burial for this animal. Her imagination sort of ran a little wild, and at times tended to go into emotional and physical breakdown. A couple of times sleeping on the cold floor of the chapel, having collapsed in a religious ecstasy or something self induced.
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