[ALSACE] - BERNHARDT (Paul) -Livre Rare Book
Dans les nuages: impressions d’une chaise. . . illustre par Georges Clairin.
187863713Paris: G. Charpentier Editeur 13 Rue de Grenelle-Saint-Germain Imprime par Georges Chamerot 1878. 4to. 6 94 pp. Illustrated title frontisp. woodcut engraved plates & illustrations 2-colour lithographs and etchings. Brick-red pictorial publisher’s cloth over beveled boards cover art illustration of the “chair†and the balloon blown by wind lettering in black & gilt black decorative pattern back cover a.e.g. minor dustsoiling edgewear slightly shaken still VG bright copy sold from “The Grolier Club†w/ bookplate on front pastedown. First edition of this cheeky and satirical semi-autobiographical memoir by the superstar actress documenting her adventures in an escaped balloon over the L’Exposition Universelle in Paris in 1878 with her lover Clairin 1843-1919 who had painted the famed salon Portrait of Bernhard 1844-1923. Lured back in 1878 to the Comedie Francaise the brilliant star with a chancy temper had been requested by the balloon’s owner to make the maiden voyage ascent but a storm ripped it from its moorings and they eventually landed outside Paris. Subsequently she refused to pay the 100 Francs fine as she had left Paris without permission. See: Claudine Hemingway Episode 23 -- Sarah Bernhardt Oct. 26 2020; Victoria Larson Across Oceans Mountains and Spaces: Sarah Bernhardt’s American Tour June 8 2010. G. Charpentier, Editeur, 13, Rue de Grenelle-Saint-Germain, [Imprime par Georges Chamerot], hardcover
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