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July
Sarah Bernhardt, the great star of the French posters
Young and stunning, with perfectly sculpted eyebrows and a head of rich brunette curls, French actress Sarah Bernhardt first captured the hearts of Paris’s theatre-going elite in the 1870s. It wasn’t long before the rest of the world took notice. Critics, reaching for poetic metaphors, likened her voice to pure gold, a nightingale, silver dawn,…