Thursday, July 5, 2012
Nature V. Nurture
While everyone has heard of Sarah Bernhardt, and I understand her to be the major influence on the portrayal of Miriam Rooth in The Tragic Muse, Rachel Felix also gets mentioned several times throughout that novel. I don't think Rachel is as well-known today (at least in the Anglosphere) as Sarah, but I at least had certainly heard to her thanks to Henry James. Therefore, I am kind of flabbergasted to discover that there are a large number of living people who are descendent of both her and Napoleon. Huh. They at least have a fascinating genetic heritage, even if they aren't fascinating people themselves!
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