beauvallet

Updated: May 27, 2025

I at once made my bow and began: Deux pigeons s'aimaient d'amour tendre, L'un d'eux s'ennuyant.... A low, grumbling sound was heard, and then a "ventriloquist" muttered, "It isn't an elocution class here. What an idea to come here reciting fables!" It was Beauvallet, the deafening tragedian of the Comedie Francaise. I stopped short, my heart beating wildly.

Sarah Bernhardt - My Double Life : The Memoirs of Sarah Bernhardt