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The Extraordinary Operatic Adventures of Blanche Arral
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Born in Belgium as Clara Lardinois,the youngest of 17 children,Blanche Arral was destined for a life wilder than fiction. During her travels,Arral befriended such legendary figures as Sarah Bernhardt,Mata Hari,Harry Houdini,Victor Hugo,Franz Liszt,Camille Saint-Saëns and Jack London,who based a character on her in his book Smoke Bellew. In Russia she met Rasputin,and in Turkey,the sultan Abdülhamid II. She describes her recording sessions with Thomas Edison and her run-ins with the difficult Nellie Melba.
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