![]() (As the Daily Dot article indicates, I've only scratched the surface of recent pop culture interpretations. If readers know of other sites, sources, and interpretations they'd like to share, please feel free to add in comments. A 2013 article in the Daily Dotprovides an interesting survey of recent online creative interest in this fascinating woman. Screen treatments include a 1965 Italian film Madamigella di Maupin which retains her cross-dressing but appears to have erased her bisexuality, and a French TV movie Julie, Chevalier de Maupin which appears from the synopsis to have retained nothing except her name and nationality. Vol 3, Fall, 1997, illustrated by Alicia Austin). Le Maupin” by Catherine Lundoff ( Lesbian Short Fiction, edited by Jinx Beers. More recent fictional treatments include the novel Goddess by Kelly Gardinerand the short story “M. An 1898 edition of the work was famously illustrated by Aubrey Beardsley in his usual lush, decadent style. Also available on-line is a 1902 English translation by F.C. The original French can be found at Project Gutenberg. The best known is Théophile Gautier’s 1835 French novel Mademoiselle de Maupin in which she is the object of desire by a man and his mistress with a rather dismal spin being put on the whole affair. A much more light-hearted (and somewhat less reliable) summary can be found at the site “Badass of the Week” by Ben Thompson.ĭ’Aubigny’s life and loves have inspired a number of fictional treatments. Jim Burrows has put together a more extensive well-footnoted narrative with a number of quotations from source material. Her Wikipedia entry covers the list of her lovers and the timeline of her career in great detail and has a good starting bibliography. There appears to be no definitive biography of d’Aubigny in English. Toward the end of her short life (she died at 33) she added a Marquise to her noble lovers and after the woman’s death was so inconsolable that she retired from the stage to a convent. Juliet dressed as a boy and learned how to ride, fight with a sword and her fists, as well as drink and gamble. Her father was in charge of training the king of Frances’s squires and brought his daughter up in the same way. After kissing a young woman at a society ball she was challenged to three duels as a result and won them all. Julie d’Aubigny was born in 1670, to a wealthy aristocratic family. She was sentenced to death for the kidnapping and pardoned by the king of France. ![]() ![]() During one performance, she bit her lover’s ear until it bled. She made her living by fencing demonstrations and opera singing. On stage, Julie D’Aubigny was just as passionate as she was off stage. Her introduction to one of her noble lovers was when she wounded him in a duel. She abducted/rescued one female lover from a convent, setting it on fire to cover their escape. She was the lover of noblemen, actors, fencing masters, and also of beautiful women. Born in 1673, she learned fencing along with assorted courtly skills as a girl and habitually dressed in male clothing openly. If Julie d’Aubigny (known by her stage name Mademoiselle de Maupin) were a character in a novel, she would be dismissed as an arrant Mary Sue, too implausible for the suspension of disbelief.
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