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Sarah Bernhardt

The History Chicks : A Women's History Podcast

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The Story of a Child Breaked

Sara throws herself out of a window or in front of a carriage to get away from her mother. Or else, as the straight history version says, she decided that the trip to brittany, which takes days, is just too long for those times she gets an impulse to nip over and say hello to her child. And what i see in all these stories is just creative rationalization from an extraordinarily unwanted child, which really breaks my heart. We shoult read too much into sarah's embroidery thut she told versions of this story her whole life also. Her papa cared a lot, but was always travelling. He was in china. He was here

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