Excerpt from Essays on the Drama Corneille, and Voltaire to the French stage. Years passed in wandering up and down with her parents, who plied their vocation of pedlars with indifferent success, were not favourable either to the education or to the health of their gifted child, or Of their other children - for they had several, - and probably laid the seeds of that delicacy of chest which ultimately proved fatal to Rachel. This is all the more probable, if we remember that at Lyons, where her parents went to reside in ...
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Excerpt from Essays on the Drama Corneille, and Voltaire to the French stage. Years passed in wandering up and down with her parents, who plied their vocation of pedlars with indifferent success, were not favourable either to the education or to the health of their gifted child, or Of their other children - for they had several, - and probably laid the seeds of that delicacy of chest which ultimately proved fatal to Rachel. This is all the more probable, if we remember that at Lyons, where her parents went to reside in 1830, and subse quently in Paris, to which they removed in 1832, her elder sister Sophie (afterwards known on the stage as Sarah F???lix) and herself used to eke out the scanty means of the household by selling oranges and by Singing at the caf???s, upon the chance Of earning a few sous from the visitors. Sarah, a bright healthy blonde, found com pensation for the hardship Of this life in the coarse admi ration which her good looks excited. Rachel, pale and plain, had no such consolation, and to her sensitive na ture the occupation was full Of suffering. This, which no doubt made itself felt in her looks, and the intelligence which must at all times have Shown itself in her eyes, attracted the notice of one who had even then given promise of a great future, as the sisters were singing in the Place Royals, and he dropped a five-franc piece into the younger girl's hand. That is Victor Hugo said a voice within her hearing; and when Rachel had become famous, and a friend Of the great poet's, She was not ashamed to relate the incident to her friends. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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