
But their love is not to be and soon she is back in Paris. Lilliet ends up working for the Empress as her wardrobe mistress and falls in love with a young composer. She ends up with a former opera singer who runs a school in Austria but soon the tenor shows up again. When he hears her sing he arranges for her to audition for the finest opera school but she is turned down.įleeing the tenor, she leaves again. There she meets a patron who becomes besotted with her, the tenor. Soon, however, she ends up working as a prostitute to make ends meet. She ends up in Paris where she joins a circus as a gymnast on a horse, singing to entertain. When disease killed off all her family, she gets on a train and starts traveling. Lilliet Berne is born in the prairies of the United States.
