Aristide Ambroise (Ambrouzis) Damalas

Notes:

Occupation: diplomat, actor

Officer attached to the Greek delegation at Paris, then to St. Petersburg. A ladies' man he quit his diplomatic career for (his future wife) Sarah Bernhardt's theatrical troop, a marriage with disputes and infidelities (Sturdza).

According to Sturdza he and his brother squandered their fortune through their extravgances in Paris during the Belle Epoque.

His wikipedia page.

Name:
also Damala

Died:
"Bernhardt Widowed; Announcement of Death in Paris of M. Jacques Damala", The New York Times, 19 Aug 1889.

Family/Spouse: mistress [Damalas]. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Aristide married Sara-Marie-Henriette Rosine Bernhardt on 04 Apr 1882 in Church of St. Andrew, Oxford Street, London, England UK. Sara-Marie-Henriette was born on 23 Oct 1844 in Paris, Île-de-France, France; died on 26 Mar 1923 in Paris, Île-de-France, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Her guardian as a child (and later?) was Basil Zaharoff (Christopher Long).

In 1920 she posed for Picasso, and she had affairs with the American novelist Ernest Hemingway and Gabriel D'Annunzio (an early Italian Fascist). The story of her life is told in the 1997 historical novel Terese by Freddy Germanos (Christopher Long).

Birth:
When Damala's mistress (who injected him with heroin between acts of plays he was appearing in) had an illegitimate daughter by him in 1889, she left the baby in a basket (with a note) on Sarah Bernhardt's doorstep (Christopher Long).

The baby (who was baptised Teresa) was given into the care of Zaharoff, who found a family to raise her in eastern Thrace (in Adrianopole) (Christopher Long).