Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Bent, James" to "Bibirine" by Various
1880. In 1878 she published a prose sketch, _Dans les nuages; les
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impressions d'une chaise_. Her comedy _L'Aveu_ was produced in 1888 at
the Odeon without much success. Her relations with the other
_societaires_ of the Comedie Francaise having become somewhat strained,
a crisis arrived in 1880, when, enraged by an unfavourable criticism of
her acting, she threw up her position on the day following the first
performance of Emile Augier's _L'Aventuriere_. This obliged her to pay a
forfeit of L4000 for breach of contract. Immediately after the rupture
she gave a series of performances in London, relying chiefly upon Scribe
and Legouve's _Adrienne Lecouvreur_ and Meilhac and Halevy's _Frou
Frou_. These were followed by tours in Denmark, America and Russia,
during 1880 and 1881, with _La Dame aux camelias_ as the principal
attraction. In 1882 she married Jacques Damala, a Greek, in London, but
separated from him at the end of the following year. After a fresh
triumph in Paris with Sardou's _Fedora_ at the Vaudeville she became
proprietress of the Porte St-Martin. Jean Richepin's _Nana Sahib_
(1883), Sardou's _Theodora_ (1884) and _La Tosca_ (1887), Jules
Barbier's _Jeanne d'Arc_ (1890) and Sardou and Moreau's _Cleopatre_
(1890) were among her most conspicuous successes here, where she
remained till she became proprietress of the Renaissance theatre in
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