Mademoiselle de Maupin
Mademoiselle de Maupin
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"Can she want to be the wife of Christ when she would have also wanted to be the wife of Mary?"<p> In 1690, Julie D'Aubigny was an opera singer, fencer, and bisexual woman. She seduced gentlemen, bourgeois women, and... young women of marriageable age! Her scandalous life was followed with delight by all the chroniclers in France. But what had happened to her? She had just dismissed her lady-in-waiting, Eugénie, to enter a convent! Everyone was in shock. What they didn't know was that the woman Théophile Gautier called "Mademoiselle de Maupin" was only after she could abduct her beloved...</p><p> This dramatic comedy, written in 2019 by Imago des Framboisiers, is loosely based on real events that took place at the end of the 17th century.</p>
