Refreshments At The Sarah Bernhardt Cafe

En route from the Arc de Triumphe to our next sight, the Sainte-Chappelle, we decided we needed a rest and some refreshment. Penelope is an aspiring thespian, among her many other interests and undertakings, and I thought...where better rest and refresh than Le Sarah Bernhardt, the cafe in the old Theater Sarah Bernhardt?

Her most recent role, the Wicked Witch, in a Raleigh
young persons' theater production of The Wizard of Oz

Bernhardt leased the theater for some years in the twilight of her long
career, already the greatest actress of her time, or perhaps any time; she
was also a writer (8 plays and books), a painter, a sculptor, the model
for my favorite Madeline (Alfred Stevens); a feminist; a vegetarian; a
collector of exotic animals, a world traveler...reading even a short biography
of her is like a who's-who of the later 19th century...