19th-century French actress Sarah Bernhardt was a global sensation during her lifetime. American author Mark Twain once wrote: "There are five kinds of actresses: bad actresses, fair actresses ...

It is an account, written by Mlle. Sarah Bernhardt, of an ascent she made last Summer in a balloon. This prosaic description of the dainty volume gives, however, no idea of its contents.

On Christmas Eve 1894, Alphonse Mucha (1860-1939), a Czech junior designer working alone in a Parisian print shop, received a rush order from actress Sarah Bernhardt for a poster advertising her ...