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DetlefK

(16,423 posts)
Tue Sep 19, 2017, 02:15 PM Sep 2017

Julie D'Aubigny: The Swashbuckling Dueling Bisexual Opera Singer of 17th Century France

http://www.collegehumor.com/post/7053288/the-tale-of-julie-daubigny-the-swashbuckling-bisexual-genderqueer-opera-singer-your-history-teacher-never-taught-you-about

Put very, very short:

- Her father taught her to fence and raised her like a boy.

- She had an affair with a fencing-master and ran away with him after he had killed somebody in an illegal duel.

- She had an affair with a girl and broke her out of a nun-convent by stealing a corpse, setting a fire and faking her death.

- Was challenged to a duel by a guy who mistook her for a man. She won and wounded him. He apologized. They became lovers.

- Opera-star.

- Kissed a girl in public. Was challenged by 3 guys to a duel over this. Dueled them SIMULTANEOUSLY and WON.

And that's not the end of the story...
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Julie D'Aubigny: The Swashbuckling Dueling Bisexual Opera Singer of 17th Century France (Original Post) DetlefK Sep 2017 OP
Very interesting. Thanks for info. bobbieinok Sep 2017 #1
Awesome!! 58Sunliner Sep 2017 #2
i am QUITE sure i read about her in my 1891 encyclopedia britannica. which are great. pansypoo53219 Sep 2017 #3

pansypoo53219

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3. i am QUITE sure i read about her in my 1891 encyclopedia britannica. which are great.
Tue Sep 19, 2017, 04:26 PM
Sep 2017

pre modern science crap, so more history + biographies that were deleted by science stuff. i started w/ a 1903 F. so good, i searched for a complete set. found a 1891 set. when anti-biotics were not a thing yet. diabetes deadly. typewriters new.

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