Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Bent, James" to "Bibirine" by Various

impressions d'une chaise_. Her comedy _L'Aveu_ was produced in 1888 at the Odeon without much success. Her relations with the other _societaires_ of the Comedie Francaise having become somewhat strained, a crisis arrived in 1880, when, enraged by an unfavourable criticism of her acting, she threw up her position on the day following the first performance of Emile Augier's _L'Aventuriere_. This obliged her to pay a forfeit of L4000 for breach of contract. Immediately after the rupture she gave a series of performances in London, relying chiefly upon Scribe and Legouve's _Adrienne Lecouvreur_ and Meilhac and Halevy's _Frou Frou_. These were followed by tours in Denmark, America and Russia, during 1880 and 1881, with _La Dame aux camelias_ as the principal attraction. In 1882 she married Jacques Damala, a Greek, in London, but separated from him at the end of the following year. After a fresh triumph in Paris with Sardou's _Fedora_ at the Vaudeville she became proprietress of the Porte St-Martin. Jean Richepin's _Nana Sahib_ (1883), Sardou's _Theodora_ (1884) and _La Tosca_ (1887), Jules Barbier's _Jeanne d'Arc_ (1890) and Sardou and Moreau's _Cleopatre_ (1890) were among her most conspicuous successes here, where she remained till she became proprietress of the Renaissance theatre in