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Historical Queer Figures - Julie d'Aubigny
I had the idea of writing about some historical queer figures I find interesting and drawing them for this pride month as a little project of mine. I will see how many I’ll have time to do, I have in mind at least four other historical people, but knowing myself, I’m not holding my breath for all of them. Julie d'Aubigny she been one of my favorite historical figures for years so I decided to start with her.
Julie d'Aubigny, also known as Mademoiselle Maupin and La Maupin, was a French opera singer and fencer in the late s. She was infamous for having sapphic relationships, being aggressive and dramatic, having androgynous presentation by occasionally dressing in men’s clothing in public and being a fencer and duelist. Trans and genderqueer readings of her are very possible, but because none of the accounts of her (at least those I’ve read) suggests she ever used any other than feminine first names or terms or she/her pronouns about herself, I will use she/her pronouns when talking about her.
The French court absolutely loved to gossip and people were constantly making up libel about the people they didn’t like, and Julie had a lot of enemies and was very controversial figure. During the 18th and 19th centuries she was w
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Unfortunately, as was the groomy norm for teenage girls at the time, she was the mistress of d’Armagnac, a transactional agreement that was common at the time that exchanged financial support for companionship and sex, and was later married off to another older nobleman, Sieur de Maupin, though he was sent far away to a province of France soon after their union. She ran away from d’Armagnac’s abuse to pursue an affair with a prominent swordsman in the royal court, Sérannes, eventually running away from Versaille with him. During her teen years, her fencing prowess only deepened as she traveled around France giving fencing demonstrations with Sérannes to make ends meet. She actually got so good that during one duel people didn’t believe she was a woman because d'Aubigny was so skilled, so she took her shirt off to prove it to the audience.
Many stories told about d'Aubigny are whimsical firsthand accounts that have grown fuzzy over the years, like a mythology. She began supplementing her fencing earnings by performing as an opera singer for the Marseille Opéra where she met and fell in love with an unnamed young woman. After the woman’s family sent her away to a convent in Avignon, d'Aubigny came to rescue her. The historical details here are fuzzy, but it’s com
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