Secrets of History - Sarah Bernhardt, her life, her follies

Muse of the greatest artists of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, the actress Sarah Bernhardt was also an extravagant and eccentric mythomaniac. Never shying away from a challenge, she traveled the world, from Australia to the American West, becoming a true ambassador of French culture. Her desire for freedom, which she had always put above all else, had transformed her existence into a permanent theater.