[Ads-l] Request help with French: Quote: An empty carriage drove up to the stage door and Sarah Bernhardt alighted

ADSGarson O'Toole adsgarsonotoole at GMAIL.COM
Sat Apr 29 20:57:39 UTC 2017


Thanks very much for your help Chris. The Google Books text should be
completely visible. If you click on the segment that is initially
displayed then GB should show the entire page.
Garson

2017-04-29 16:37 GMT-04:00 Chris Waigl <chris at lascribe.net>:
> Actually, looking at the Google Books snippet again, with the little
> bits of text before and after, this seems to be a reference to Sarah
> Bernhardt travelling in air balloon. (Which is the "there" to which she
> "definitely" ascended.)
>
> Chris
>
> On 4/29/17 11:51 AM, ADSGarson O'Toole wrote:
>> Date: December 14, 1878
>> Periodical: La Revue Politique et Littéraire
>> Series 2, Year 8, Number 24
>> Article: Causerie Littéraire
>> Start Page 568, Quote Page 569
>> Publisher: Librairie Germer Baillière, Paris
>> Database: Google Books Full View
>>
>> https://books.google.com/books?id=unlQAQAAMAAJ&q=%22voiture+vide%22#v=snippet&
>>
>> [Begin excerpt]
>> Oui, elle y est bien montée, en effet, en présence d'un bon public de
>> badauds dont je faisais partie. J'étais là quand déboucha sur le
>> Carrousel et s'arrêta devant la foule compacte une voiture vide. Mlle
>> Sarah Bernhardt en descendit. Ses yeux voilés et noyés nageaient déjà
>> dans un bain d'azur; une brise légère semblait déjà la soulever
>> mollement; ses boucles aériennes flottaient; par sa traîne seule elle
>> tenait à la terre.
>> [End excerpt]
>>
>>
>> Garson
>>
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