A volume of memoires of Sarah Bernhardt, a legendary French stage and early film actress and writer. The book is considered to be of a considerable historical and cultural value. It allows to get acquainted to life and work of this famous person, as well as provide a vivid picture of the epoch, so rich in historical events. Presenting the atmosphere, gallery of portraits of outstanding statesmen, people of art and literature, these memoires reveal for readers world of feelings of the woman, who became a legend inter vivos. Sarah Bernhardt tells, simply and naturally, of the childhood, of people who appeared in entered life, of her stage impressions. But, as in any work of this kind, the border between the reality and subjective perception of the events remains imperceptible.