Cairns, Australia (Vocus) October 31, 2010
They satisfied very first in the Latin Quarter of Paris—he a college student at the University’s School of Drugs and she an actress just beginning her ascent to stardom. The sexual attraction was mutual, instant and mind-boggling and would melt away for ten several years. They would stay dedicated to each other right up until dying divided them. Co-authors Caroline de Costa and Francesca Miller investigate their tale in The Diva and Medical professional God: Letters from Sarah Bernhardt to Medical professional Samuel Pozzi.

French actress Sarah Bernhardt, the initial global ‘superstar’, died nearly a single hundred a long time in the past, but she proceeds to fascinate an viewers close to the planet. Although biographies hold appearing and the Web does a brisk trade in photos of Sarah in her numerous roles, minor that is new has been released about her daily life in at the very least 20 many years. Doctor Samuel Pozzi is often mentioned in passing by her biographers, as a friend and medical doctor to the star, but scant attention has been paid out to his relationship with her throughout their lives. Bernhardt and Pozzi have been truly lovers for the ten many years from 1869, and their sexual liaison then morphed into a deep and sincere friendship lasting until finally his loss of life in 1918. He was possibly her oldest and closest friend.

In creating The Diva and Medical professional God, the authors have had entry to more than one particular hundred letters and telegrams from Sarah Bernhardt to Samuel Pozzi, from the non-public archives in Paris of Pozzi’s wonderful-grandson Nicolas Bourdet—most of which have in no way been revealed. While several are really short notes, the perception of the shut partnership between the two across almost fifty a long time is clearly conveyed. All around these letters, the tiny-identified story of Bernhardt and Pozzi is woven, which has permitted the authors to recount the most intriguing factors of Pozzi’s existence as properly as the massive contribution he made to bettering women’s reproductive wellness. For more data on this ebook, interested get-togethers may possibly log on to http://www.Xlibris.com.
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Caroline de Costa is professor of obstetrics and gynecology at James Prepare dinner College Faculty of Medicine in Cairns, North Queensland, Australia, and a practicing obstetrician and gynecologist. She has revealed many books in the United States and Australia, including guides of info for girls on reproductive overall health, popular textbooks for health-related learners, and a few novels. She has a particular desire in the overall health of Indigenous Australian ladies and ladies from not too long ago-arrived immigrant teams and has been a robust advocate for improvements in women’s healthcare in Australia. She also has an fascination in the background of gynecology and has released commonly in this area. As well as her healthcare skills she has a degree in French language and literature. She is the mom of seven kids and lives in Cairns with her partner, a surgeon. For further info see http://www.carolinedecosta.com.
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Francesca Miller has expended a lot of her expert existence as an amusement journalist and motion picture reviewer in print, on-line and on radio. She has worked as an editor for journals in Los Angeles, Seattle, Canada, New York and San Francisco, interviewed a quantity of Hollywood luminaries, written quite a few “puff pieces” and critiqued hundreds of films. She is a member of Romance Writers of The united states and the Intercontinental Press Academy. With Caroline she has co-authored articles on Samuel Pozzi and Sarah Bernhardt for The Lancet and History Nowadays. She has accomplished two operates of fiction and is presently working on a crime novel about New Orleans in the 1950s. For additional information see http://www.francescamiller.com.

The Diva and Physician God * by Caroline de Costa and Francesca Miller
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