![]() ![]() I don't know - she just auditioned for the Marseilles Opera, but then later on after the adventures that she had in Marseilles and Provence, she made her way to Paris with another lover, Thévenard, who was a baritone, and he auditioned for the Paris Opera and was hired on his first day, and he said, I will only join you if my girlfriend can come too. Whenever society starts to think about, what does gender mean, what does sexuality mean, she's just one of the names that comes up. On how, after escaping Paris, she became an opera singer ![]() but I have to say that when I'm writing the fencing scenes, I do jump out of my chair and grab a foil - I've still got my old swords - and I act out the scenes for myself, just to make sure that they make sense. I used to fence as a kid, it's one of the reasons I know about her. But she wanted more, and so very quickly she got bored, and she ran off with her fencing master. And all of a sudden she was the very young mistress, and was moved into Paris so that he could keep her separate from his wife. He was her father's boss, and he was one of the great noblemen of France at the time, very very powerful man. On becoming a nobleman's mistress at the age of 13 So she must've felt apart, I think, for a great deal of her life. I started to think, how would that have been, to be a cross-dressing, sword-fighting opera singer in the 17th century - I mean, she would have felt incredibly alone for a lot of her life, and incredibly brave. It's called Goddess, and Gardiner tells NPR's Scott Simon that some people find it hard to believe that d'Aubigny was a real person, because her life was so remarkable, "but yes, she really did live." She was, according to history, exquisite in appearance, a graceful and superb fencer, a sublime singer, a swashbuckling duellist, and lover of men and women, famous and cloistered - and that's just the beginning.Īustralian young adult author Kelly Gardiner has written her first novel for grownups about a character who seems to leave no adult passion untested. You can run out of colorful adjectives trying to describe Julie d'Aubigny. ![]()
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