Editing Sarah Bernhardt (section)

===World tours (1886–1892)===
[[File:Alfred Stevens (1823–1906) - Maria Magdalena - 1887 - MSK Gent 17-03-2009 12-18-27.JPG|thumb|Bernhardt as [[Mary Magdalene (Stevens)|Mary Magdalene]], painting by [[Alfred Stevens (painter)|Alfred Stevens]] (1887)]]

''Theodora'' was followed by two failures. In 1885, in homage to Victor Hugo, who had died a few months earlier, she staged one of his older plays, ''[[Marion de Lorme (Hugo)|Marion de Lorme]]'', written in 1831, but the play was outdated and her role did not give her a chance to show her talents.{{Sfn|Tierchant|2009|page=213}} She next put on ''Hamlet'', with her lover Philippe Garnier in the leading role and Bernhardt in the relatively minor role of [[Ophelia]]. The critics and audiences were not impressed, and the play was unsuccessful.{{Sfn|Tierchant|2009|page=213}} Bernhardt had built up large expenses, which included a 10,000 francs a month allowance paid to her son Maurice, a passionate gambler. Bernhardt was forced to sell her chalet in Sainte-Addresse and her mansion on rue Fortuny, and part of her collection of animals. Her impresario, Edouard Jarrett, immediately proposed she make another world tour, this time to Brazil, [[Argentina]], [[Uruguay]], Chile, [[Peru]], [[Panama]], [[Cuba]], and Mexico, then on to [[Texas]], New York City, England, Ireland, and Scotland. She was on tour for 15 months, from early 1886 until late 1887. On the eve of departure, she told a French reporter: "I passionately love this life of adventures. I detest knowing in advance what they are going to serve at my dinner, and I detest a hundred thousand times more knowing what will happen to me, for better or worse. I adore the unexpected."{{Sfn|Tierchant|2009|pages=210–211}}

In every city she visited, she was feted and cheered by audiences. The actors Edouard Angelo and Philippe Garnier were her leading men. Emperor [[Pedro II of Brazil]] attended all of her performances in Rio de Janeiro and presented her with a gold bracelet with diamonds, which was almost immediately stolen from her hotel. The two leading actors both fell ill with [[yellow fever]], and her long-time manager, Edward Jarrett, died of a heart attack. Bernhardt was undaunted, however, and went crocodile hunting at [[Guayaquil]], and bought more animals for her menagerie. Her performances in every city were sold out, and by the end of the tour, she had earned more than 1 million francs. The tour allowed her to purchase her final home, which she filled with her paintings, plants, souvenirs, and animals.{{Sfn| Tierchant| 2009| pages=214–216}}

From then on, whenever she ran short of money (which generally happened every three or four years), she went on tour, performing both her classics and new plays. In 1888, she toured Italy, Egypt, Turkey, Sweden, Norway, and Russia. She returned to Paris in early 1889 with an enormous owl given to her by the [[Grand Duke Alexei Alexandrovich of Russia|Grand Duke Alexei Alexandrovich]], the brother of the Czar.{{Sfn|Tierchant|2009|page=226}} Her 1891–92 tour was her most extensive, including much of Europe, Russia, North and South America, Australia, New Zealand, Hawaii, and Samoa. Her personal luggage consisted of 45 costume crates for her 15 different productions, and 75 crates for her off-stage clothing, including her 250 pairs of shoes. She carried a trunk for her perfumes, cosmetics and makeup, and another for her sheets and tablecloths and her five pillows. After the tour, she brought back a trunk filled with 3,500,000 francs, but she also suffered a painful injury to her knee when she leaped off the parapet of the Castello Sant' Angelo in ''La Tosca''. The mattress on which she was supposed to land was misplaced, and she landed on the boards.{{Sfn|Skinner|1967|page=248}}