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Aristides Damalas (Greek: Aριστεíδης Δαμαλάς, alternative spellings Aristidis or Aristide; 15 January 1855 – 18 August 1889), known in France by the stage name Jacques Damala, was a Greek military officer-turned-actor, and husband of Sarah Bernhardt in his last years.
In 1882, in Paris, Bernhardt met a Greek diplomat, Aristide Damala (known in France by his stage name Jacques Damala), who was 11 years her junior, and notorious for his romantic affairs. Bernhardt's biographer described him as "handsome as Adonis, insolent, vain, and altogether despicable." [205]
24 de ago. de 2014 · Jacques Damala, an actor and the husband of Sarah Bernhardt, who died in 1889. New York Public Library. Sarah Bernhardt, who has so wonderfully impersonated death in all its phases, has just...
24 de nov. de 2018 · Los actores de la compañía de Sarah Bernhardt se burlaban constantemente de Jacques Damala.
Funerary Portrait of Jacques Damala. On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 556. The great tragic actress, Sarah Bernhardt, was also a gifted sculptor. She carved this haunting memorial to her husband, the actor Jacques Damala (1855–1889), shortly after he had died of a drug overdose.
Mientras, Sarah Bernhardt montó su propia compañía en 1880, con la que hizo la primera de sus muchas giras por los Estados Unidos de América en 1881 y ganó cientos de miles de francos. Fue durante este viaje cuando se casó con el actor de origen griego Jacques Damala.
Jacques Damala fue un actor, director y productor de teatro griego que se trasladó a París en la década de 1880 para seguir su carrera en el mundo del espectáculo. En 1893, Damala conoció a Sarah Bernhardt, una de las actrices más famosas de su tiempo.
