“Queen of attitude and princess of gesture” according to Edmond Rostand, “golden voice” according to Victor Hugo, Sarah Bernhardt marked the world of the theater by her interpretations, her tumultuous tours, her extravagances … But also by patriotism which she expressed with force within the theater with the armies, intended to support the morale of the troops during the Great War. A patriotism which marked the spirits in Meurthe-et-Moselle, where with other artists, the great Sarah Bernhardt, amputated of a leg in 1915, came to occur in May 1916 at the age of 72 years. A tour evoked by the actress of the French Comedy Béatrix Dussane, recounting in her book “Reines de théâtre” the arrival at Toul station on May 9, 1916.
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The tour, started with Commercy, in the Meuse, went through the Château de Boucq transformed into an ambulance, on May 10, and through the village hall of Dieulouard, on May 11, where Sarah Bernhardt was photographed in front of the Maison des moines surrounded by soldiers of the 73rd Toul Infantry Division commanded by General Lebocq. Soldiers who particularly distinguished themselves in Bois-le-Prêtre, a forest area north-west of Pont-à-Mousson where the fierce fighting, from October 1914 to mid-August 1915, caused loss of 14,000 French and German soldiers.
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