Welcome to the History Tricks where any resemblance to a boring old history lesson is purely coincidental.

A quick little ears warning, though we are not explicit in any way, there is an inevitable

transactional adult relationships scenario that you might want to preview before letting little ears hear this episode.

And now on with the show.

And here is your 30 second summary.

Sarah Bernhardt began life as an unwanted child of a corn-zon.

And through hard work, sheer-luck, shocking eccentricity and her indomitable spirit transformed herself into the first A-list international celebrity the world had ever seen.

The End.

Let's talk about Sarah Bernhardt.

But first let's drop her into history in 1862.

Juliet Ward House poem, the battle him of the Republic was first published.

Louis Pasteur completed his first successful test of what would become known as pasteurization.

The current Westminster Bridge over the River Thames opened Charles dots in first told his tale Alice's adventures in Wonderland and young Alice Ladelle asked him to write it out for her.

The bowling ball then made of wood was first invented, although the game predates this invention by about 5,000 years.

The US Civil War was in full swing.

Edith Wharton, Gustav Klimt and Ida B. Wells bar net were all born.

Henry David Thoreau and former US president John Tyler and Martin Van Buren died. And in 1862 Sarah Bernhardt made her professional acting debut.

Henriette Rosine Bernhardt was born in the Kingdom of France on a vast assortment of dates between 1841 and 1847.

In Imagine, if you will, a dart board with the darts hitting random places such is the data most flowing from her own mouth.

The common consensus seems to be somewhere in the middle late October of 1844.

So we are going to base any age related comments on that date.

And her name is often listed in various different ways. She as well as other members or a family really played loose with silly things like facts.

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