 Sarah Bernhardt-Damala) but never renounced it, even after her husband's death, though this was not widely known.She kept "Damala" as her legal name until she died, though her decision caused her some troubles during World War I, when an officer in a consular office at Bordeaux refused to grant her a visa to her passport, due to the fact the latter was Greek (King Constantine of Greece was thought to support the German side during the war and the French state refused to grant visas to Greek passports).It took the intervention of the Minister of Interior for Bernhardt to have her visa granted.