Before becoming the most famous actress of her time, the young Sarah Bernhardt became known for a habit that was macabre, to say the least. What was it?
The answer
Around 1880, the young actress had herself photographed in, and sometimes slept in, a rosewood coffin lined with white satin, even learning her lines in it. When she died in 1923, she was buried at Père-Lachaise in that very same coffin.
This question belongs to the “Unusual Stories” series of the Père-Lachaise quiz: ten questions, a story behind every right answer.