eccentricity of character: she was on the threshold of seventy when she asked one of her admirers to present her with a coffin, which remained beside her bed for the rest of her life; often she would choose to sleep in it, or to have photographs taken in it. At that time she began to collect strange animals — lions and monkeys — for her garden; she always bathed in milk, and would go disguised in boys' clothing at the public clubs, until many took her for a young man. It is said that during this period she began to drink greedily, and her lovers were past counting.

A strange legend was woven about her, following certain risks she took in London in the year 1880, whereupon the Comédie Française dismissed her from its service; so she traveled to America at her own expense, and there played the part of "La Dame aux Camélias," rousing the enthusiasm of the public and amassing a fortune not to be despised — as well as gathering strange animals for her garden. And she returned to Europe a rich lady, of widespread renown, the manager of her own affairs, until death overtook her in 1923.

In 1882 she married a handsome Greek actor named "Damala," who was among the forces that wrecked her happiness, by his faithlessness to her; he met his end in 1889.

Between 1890 and 1915 — that is, after one of her legs was dis-abled — her artistic star blazed so

brightly that the crowds streamed in from every quarter to hear "the golden voice." Before the First World War she used to pass her days with her son Maurice and his family on an island near the shores of "Brittany," in a dwelling

she called "the Fort."

Her leg was disabled, and her years had climbed past seventy, in 1916, when her countrymen named her "the proud wounded one." She returned to the stage after the war and played one of

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