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VICTORIEN SARDOU., BorN 1831, A mONS. VICTORIEN SARDOU,

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first play was produced at the age at which cur first portrait represents him, but proved

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A complete fatlure, and three years later he was living, or rather dying, in a garret, miser- ably poor and struck down by tvphoid fever. A neighbour, Mademoiselle de Brécourt, nursed him with tender care, and on his recovery he married her. Then, undeterred by his former failure, he turned again to writing plays, with such phenomenal success that before the age at which he is depicted in our sccond portrait he was master of a princely fortunc and a world-wide reputation. He is best known in England by I'édora ” and

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• Théodora,” which he wrote for Sarah Bern-

hardt. His reeeption into the French Academy took place in 1878,

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PRESENT DAY, [ Photograph.