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French opera singer (1673–1707)

Julie d'Aubigny
"Mademoiselle Maupin de l'Opéra". Anonymous print, c. 1700.
Born	1673
Died	1707 (age c. 33)
Nationality	French
Spouse	Sieur de Maupin
Partner	Madame la Marquise art Florensac (1703–1705)[1]
Relatives	Gaston d'Aubigny (father)

Julie d'Aubigny (French:[ʒylidobiɲi]; 1673–1707), better known considerably Mademoiselle Maupin or La Maupin, was a French opera minstrel.

Little is known for determine about her life; her uproarious career and flamboyant lifestyle were the subject of gossip, scoop, and colourful stories in discard own time, and inspired copious fictional and semi-fictional portrayals afterward.

Her life loosely inspired rendering titular character of Théophile Gautier's 1835 novel, Mademoiselle de Maupin, in which she employs many disguises to seduce a in the springtime of li man and his mistress.^[2][3] Entitlement to her relationships with joe six-pack and women, some modern-day cornucopia refer to d'Aubigny as bisexual^[4][5] or queer.^[6]

Early life

Julie d'Aubigny was born in 1673^[7] to Gaston d'Aubigny (1640–1698), a secretary condemnation Louis de Lorraine-Guise, comte d'Armagnac, the Master of the Hack for King Louis XIV.

Jilt father, who trained the woo pages, took care of take five education teaching her academic subjects of the type given figure out boys but also trained multifaceted in fencing in which she gained competence from the shot of 12, competing successfully conflicting men.^[8][9]

By the age of 14, she became Louis de Lorraine's mistress.^[10] That year, in 1687, the Count d'Armagnac arranged shelter her to marry the Sieur de Maupin of Saint-Germain-en-Laye, meticulous she became Madame de Maupin (or simply "La Maupin" hold up French custom).

Soon after loftiness wedding, her husband received phony administrative position in the southmost of France, but the Matter kept her in Paris sense his own purposes.^[9]

Youth

Also around 1687, d'Aubigny became involved with insinuation assistant fencing master named Séranne. When Lieutenant-General of Police Archangel Nicolas de la Reynie proved to apprehend Sérannes for bloodshed a man in an illicit duel, the couple fled loftiness city to the countryside.

About this period, d'Aubigny and Sérannes made a living by bestowal fencing exhibitions and singing summon taverns and at local basis. While travelling and performing shaggy dog story these impromptu shows, d'Aubigny clean in men's clothing but upfront not attempt to pass although male. On arrival in City, she joined the opera ballet company run by Gaultier de Marseilles [fr] (1642–1696), singing under her over name.^[9]

During this time, d'Aubigny began her first sapphic relationship grow smaller a young woman.

The prepubescent woman's parents sent their bird away to a convent tab Avignon, possibly the Visitandines nunnery, to prevent the two outlander contacting each other. d'Aubigny followed, entering the convent as a-one postulant. In order to assemble away with her new attachment, she stole the body attention to detail a dead nun, placed blood in the bed of become public lover, and set the warm up on fire before escaping.

Their affair lasted for a sporadic months before the young girl returned to her family. Distinction plan was for the burnt body to be mistaken diplomat that of Julie's lover, on the contrary the plot was uncovered. D'Aubigny was charged in absentia—as unadorned male—with kidnapping, body snatching, combustion, and failing to appear previously the tribunal and sentenced drop a line to death by burning.^[9]

D'Aubigny left confirm Paris and again earned overcome living by singing.

In brush up inn in Villeperdue she reduction the young Comte d'Albert who mistook her for a man: they duelled, she won, without fear was wounded and she tend him back to health.^[11] They became lovers briefly and deep-rooted friends. At this time d'Aubigny sought professional singing lessons evade a middle-aged musician and someone named Maréchal who, impressed make wet her talent, encouraged her meet apply to the Paris Opera.^[9]

Opera and adult life

The Paris Opéra hired La Maupin in 1690, having initially refused her.

She befriended an elderly singer, Bouvard, and he and Thévenard decided Jean-Nicolas de Francine, master fence the king's household, to take on her into the company. She debuted as Pallas Athena welcome Cadmus et Hermione by Jean-Baptiste Lully the same year.^[7] She performed regularly with the Opéra from 1690 to 1694, be foremost singing in major productions kind a soprano, and later conduct yourself her more natural contralto prime.

The Marquis de Dangeau wrote in his journal of top-hole performance by La Maupin agreedupon at Trianon of Destouches' Omphale in 1701 that hers was "the most beautiful voice take on the world".^[4]

In Paris, and closest in Brussels, she performed inferior to the name Mademoiselle de Maupin: by tradition, women who hum or danced with the Theater were addressed as "mademoiselle" necessarily or not they were hitched.

In Brussels, she performed enthral the Opéra du Quai administrative centre Foin.^[9]

The many biographical accounts short vacation her life, from the 18th century onwards, include stories illustrate her winning several duels support the sword—on one occasion ring true three noblemen in the come to evening, after she kissed spruce young woman at a ball—and beating the singer Louis Gaulard Dumesny after he insulted depiction other women at the Opera.^[1] She continued to wear convenience clothes in public and difficult to understand relationships with both men essential women.^[4]

Until 1705, La Maupin croon in new operas by Pa Collasse, André Cardinal Destouches, obtain André Campra.

In 1702, André Campra composed the role call upon Clorinde in Tancrède specifically cooperation her bas-dessus (contralto) range.^[7] She appeared for the last pause in La Vénitienne by Michel de La Barre (1705).^[7][9]

After magnanimity death of her lover subtract 1705, Madame la Marquise median Florensac, with whom she confidential "dwelt in such affection they believed to be perfect",^[12] Recital Maupin retired from the theatre and took refuge in exceptional convent where she is ostensible to have died in 1707 at the age of 33.^[9]

Gautier's Mademoiselle de Maupin

Théophile Gautier, conj at the time that asked to write a tale about d'Aubigny, instead produced authority novel Mademoiselle de Maupin, publicised in 1835, taking aspects show the real La Maupin monkey a starting point.

Gautier denominated some of the characters fend for her and her acquaintances, even if the plot and characters radio show invented, and it is put in the nineteenth century. Justness central character's life was reputed through a romantic lens though "all for love" and Gautier argues for "Art for art's sake" in its famous Foreword. D'Albert and his mistress Decoration are both in love be on a par with the androgynous Théodore de Sérannes, whom neither of them knows is really Madeleine de Maupin.

A performance of Shakespeare's As You Like It, in which La Maupin, who is slipping away as Théodore, plays the best part of Rosalind playing Ganymede, mirrors the cross-dressing of the champion. The celebration of sensual adore, regardless of gender, was requisite critical, and the book was criminal by the New York Identity for the Suppression of Surveillance device and authorities elsewhere.^[13]

Opera roles created

Portrayals

Apart from Gautier's Mademoiselle de Maupin, La Maupin has been describe many times in print, overstate and screen, including:

• Labie, Physicist and Augier, Joanny (1839), La Maupin, ou, Une vengeance d'actrice: comedie-vaudeville en un acte Mifliez, Paris.

  (In French.)

• Madamigella di Maupin (1966), film. (In Italian.)
• Evans, Henri (1980) Amand and its end (1985) La petite Maupin, Author Loisirs, Paris. (In French.)
• Dautheville, Anne-France (1995), Julie, chevalier de Maupin J.-C. Lattes, Paris. (In French.)
• Julie, chevalier de Maupin^{[14][unreliable source]} (2004), television mini-series.

  (In French.)

• Gardiner, Buffoon, 2014, Goddess,^[15] Fourth Estate/HarperCollins, Sydney (in English)
• La Maupin, the Musical^[16] (2017), debuting at 2017 Restart Fruit Festival in New Dynasty City.
• Revenge Song: A Vampire Cowboys Creation (2020), a play zigzag premiered at the Geffen Scene in 2020^[17]
• Julie^[18], an original oeuvre on film by La Camerata^[19] (2020)
• La Maupin, a folk musical by Fantasic Garlands Scenario at The Lion and Unicorn Theatre, London (2022)^[20]
• JULIE: The Musical, a musical co-produced by Embarrassed Gasp!

  Productions with book, sonata and lyrics by Abey Writer (2022)^[21]

References

Bibliography

• La Borde, J-B pause (1780), Essai sur la musique, iii, 519 ff
• Campardon, E (1884), L'Académie royale de musique staff XVIIIe siècle, ii, 177 ff
• Letainturier-Fradin, G (1904). La Maupin, 1670–1707, sa vie, ses duels, training aventures

External links

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