They ended up becoming lovers as well as patient and care taker for a few weeks.
In the morning the noble sent a letter of apology for his drunken crudeness so she went to visit him. Julie bested all 3 with the sword, leaving them wounded She challenged him and his 2 friends to test the other half of her performances, the swordfighting, outside. With all concerned drunk it was NOT the best of times. In the best of times Julie doesn't have a great temper. It was low-profile but still enjoyable to herĪt one such tavern, with all parties involved somewhat drunk, a noble son called out something like "The bird sings well but I would like to see if her plumage is equally impressive". Julie who was technically a criminal now, even if one who's extremely hard to actually find due to that earlier mentioned mistake, returned to her life style of traveling from tavern to tavern to perform. After 3 months though this pair also split Julie made a habit of wearing men's clothing so the call for her arrest incorrectly called her a man and made it harder to actually find her. Once the opportunity arose the couple started a distraction by setting the place on fire and leaving. Julie simply went there as well, disguised as a nun herself. Unfortunately for them that was nowhere near enough to stop the rising trouble maker. In one performance she ended up capturing the heart of another noble daughter but before long the family sent their daughter to a convent because of the standards of the time Julie proved him wrong by taking off her top and telling the crowd to "judge for themselves"Įventually they split up, though Julie continued these shows on her own a bit more before being noticed and recruited by one of the opera groups of the time. One notable time someone in the crowd accused her of lying because they couldn't believe a woman would fight that well. She learned more about sword fighting with him and they made a living with acts where one would sing and the other would sword fight any challengers. That life wasn't meant for Julie though and when her new husband went over seas she left the city with a man who accidentally killed someone in a duel. However even at a young age she ended up being too much to handle somehow so he separated from her and had her go into an arranged marriage. In fact she actually attended his swordsmanship classes and her first romantic/sexual relationship started when she was only 14. She ended up inheriting these traits from him in one way or another. Julie's father was a good fighter, a heavy drinker, and a frequenter of brothels.
One might think from this that she, like most such women of the past, would just have ended up living a boring privileged life but that was not so. Her father held the office in charge of training royal pages and was a highly regarded noble. Julie d'Aubigny was born into a high class family in France around 1670.
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