A SENSATION WITH SARAH BERNHARDT.

Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 22, 26 January 1884, Page 4

A SENSATION WITH SARAH BERNHARDT.

♦ Marie Colombier, who accompanied the French aotress, Sarah Bornhardt, to America, has written and published in Paris, a satirical biography of the artiste, whom she oalls "Sarah Barnum," comparing her to the American showman. This so incensed Bernhardt that, taking her son with her, she visited Colombior recently, and assaulted her, striking her over the face with a riding whip. Colombier fled, pursued by the enraged aotress, who smashed everything in her way. It is stated the affair will load to a number of duels. A later despatch says Bernhardt carried a small dagger in her left hand, while she wielded a whip with her right. On leaving the house, she said to the oonoiergo, "I reoeived the whip from Marshal Canrobert ; I have given it to Colombier." The book is said to have been written by a brilliant young Parisian journalist, whose oreature Colombier is. It takes Bernhardt from the cradle to the grave, the last scene representing a fit of delirium trmens, in whioh she snooks her brains out against the bed-post. The latest phase of this peouliary Frenoh sensation is that (aocording to a despatch from Paris, 2lßtDeoember), Colombier has written a letter to the Figaro saying she regrets writing the " Memoirs of Sarah Barnum," beoause the book has oauaed such discussion, and declares Bernhardt wrong in supposing herself to be the imaginary heroine alluded to. Colombier oonMnues :—": — " Neither her dagper nor her horsewhip, nor the outlass of Bichepin, touched me. Concealed behind a window ourtain, I witnessed all that passed. Riohepin wounded one of my friends who was endeavouring to prevent him coming into my apartments. Bernhardt never complained about my book until an injudioions friend prompted her to do bo."