Julie d'Aubigny

The opera singer Julie d'Aubigny learned dancing, reading, drawing, and fencing while young. She fled to Marseille together with Sérannes, an assistant fencing master and they earned money by giving fencing exhibitions and singing in taverns and at local fairs. Julie d'Aubigny joined the opera company run by Pierre Gaultier in Marseille and left Sérannes for a young woman. The two lovers managed to get away from a convent by setting it on fire. Three months later, the girl returned to her parents and d'Aubigny was charged in absentia with kidnapping, body snatching, arson, and failing to appear before the tribunal. The sentence was death by fire.\nShe returned to Paris and asked an old lover of hers, the Count d'Armagnac, to persuade the king to grant her a pardon and a place at the Paris Opéra. The audience love her beautiful voice, her acting skill, and her androgynous appearance, but she has not gained as many friends amongst her fellow actors and actresses. Louis Gaulard Dumesny had bothered female members and thus earned himself a beating by d'Aubigny, Thévenard and her duel of wits are legendary and she defeated three noblemen in duels who challenged her after she kissed a young woman at a society ball. Though she might have many flaws, she is a diamond in the rough. What should we do with her?