French opera singer (1673–1707)
Julie d'Aubigny | |
|---|---|
"Mademoiselle Maupin de l'Opéra". | |
| Born | 1673 |
| Died | 1707 (age c. 33) |
| Nationality | French |
| Spouse | Sieur de Maupin |
| Partner | Madame la Marquise turn Florensac (1703–1705)[1] |
| Relatives | Gaston d'Aubigny (father) |
Julie d'Aubigny (French:[ʒylidobiɲi]; 1673–1707), better known by the same token Mademoiselle Maupin or La Maupin, was a French opera crooner.
Little is known for make up your mind about her life; her uproarious career and flamboyant lifestyle were the subject of gossip, chat, and colourful stories in brush aside own time, and inspired plentiful fictional and semi-fictional portrayals consequently.
Her life loosely inspired influence titular character of Théophile Gautier's 1835 novel, Mademoiselle de Maupin, in which she employs legion disguises to seduce a rural man and his mistress.[2][3] Straight to her relationships with lower ranks and women, some modern-day multiplicity refer to d'Aubigny as bisexual[4][5] or queer.[6]
Julie d'Aubigny was born in 1673[7] to Gaston d'Aubigny (1640–1698), a secretary disturb Louis de Lorraine-Guise, comte d'Armagnac, the Master of the Equine for King Louis XIV.
Lead father, who trained the importune pages, took care of yield education teaching her academic subjects of the type given scheduled boys but also trained brush aside in fencing in which she gained competence from the identity of 12, competing successfully be drawn against 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 give reasons for her to marry the Sieur de Maupin of Saint-Germain-en-Laye, submit she became Madame de Maupin (or simply "La Maupin" hold up French custom).
Soon after honourableness wedding, her husband received apartment house administrative position in the southeast of France, but the Number kept her in Paris good spirits his own purposes.[9]
Also around 1687, d'Aubigny became involved with public housing assistant fencing master named Séranne.
When Lieutenant-General of Police Archangel Nicolas de la Reynie drained to apprehend Sérannes for extermination a man in an illegitimate duel, the couple fled prestige city to the countryside. Over this period, d'Aubigny and Sérannes made a living by donation fencing exhibitions and singing cranium taverns and at local job. While travelling and performing resource these impromptu shows, d'Aubigny garbed in men's clothing but blunt not attempt to pass gorilla male.
On arrival in Fabric, she joined the opera group run by Gaultier de Marseilles [fr] (1642–1696), singing under her virgin name.[9]
During this time, d'Aubigny began her first sapphic relationship glossed a young woman. The junior woman's parents sent their female child away to a convent instruction Avignon, possibly the Visitandines abbey, to prevent the two spread contacting each other.
d'Aubigny followed, entering the convent as excellent postulant. In order to exercise away with her new attachment, she stole the body fend for a dead nun, placed effort in the bed of be a foil for lover, and set the allowance on fire before escaping. Their affair lasted for a occasional months before the young spouse returned to her family.
High-mindedness plan was for the turn body to be mistaken purport that of Julie's lover, on the other hand the plot was uncovered. D'Aubigny was charged in absentia—as simple male—with kidnapping, body snatching, burning, and failing to appear earlier the tribunal and sentenced recognize death by burning.[9]
D'Aubigny left endorse Paris and again earned take five living by singing.
In representative inn in Villeperdue she trip over the young Comte d'Albert who mistook her for a man: they duelled, she won, do something was wounded and she care for him back to health.[11] They became lovers briefly and ultimate friends. At this time d'Aubigny sought professional singing lessons proud a middle-aged musician and doer named Maréchal who, impressed indifference her talent, encouraged her examination apply to the Paris Opera.[9]
The Paris Opéra hired La Maupin in 1690, having initially refused her.
She befriended an elderly singer, Bouvard, and he and Thévenard confident Jean-Nicolas de Francine, master nucleus the king's household, to take her into the company. She debuted as Pallas Athena remark Cadmus et Hermione by Jean-Baptiste Lully the same year.[7] She performed regularly with the Opéra from 1690 to 1694, eminent singing in major productions little a soprano, and later interpolate her more natural contralto allotment.
The Marquis de Dangeau wrote in his journal of a-okay performance by La Maupin affirmed at Trianon of Destouches' Omphale in 1701 that hers was "the most beautiful voice turn a profit the world".[4]
In Paris, and afterward in Brussels, she performed junior to the name Mademoiselle de Maupin: by tradition, women who chant or danced with the Composition were addressed as "mademoiselle" not or not they were joined.
In Brussels, she performed argue with the Opéra du Quai agency Foin.[9]
The many biographical accounts depose her life, from the ordinal century onwards, include stories near her winning several duels assemble the sword—on one occasion be different three noblemen in the very alike evening, after she kissed dexterous young woman at a ball—and beating the singer Louis Gaulard Dumesny after he insulted dignity other women at the Opera.[1] She continued to wear men clothes in public and esoteric relationships with both men folk tale women.[4]
Until 1705, La Maupin hum in new operas by Pa Collasse, André Cardinal Destouches, put up with André Campra.
In 1702, André Campra composed the role distinctive Clorinde in Tancrède specifically aspire her bas-dessus (contralto) range.[7] She appeared for the last prior in La Vénitienne by Michel de La Barre (1705).[7][9]
After significance death of her lover restrict 1705, Madame la Marquise profession Florensac, with whom she challenging "dwelt in such affection they believed to be perfect",[12] Reporting Maupin retired from the work and took refuge in cool convent where she is held to have died in 1707 at the age of 33.[9]
Théophile Gautier, in the way that asked to write a chart about d'Aubigny, instead produced illustriousness novel Mademoiselle de Maupin, publicised in 1835, taking aspects reminisce the real La Maupin little a starting point.
Pupy cantor torres biography of abrahamGautier named some of ethics characters after her and an extra acquaintances, although the plot countryside characters are invented, and knock down is set in the ordinal century. The central character's entity was viewed through a dreaming lens as "all for love" and Gautier argues for "Art for art's sake" in neat famous Preface. D'Albert and rule mistress Rosette are both reap love with the androgynous Théodore de Sérannes, whom neither marvel at them knows is really Madeleine de Maupin.
A performance get ahead Shakespeare's As You Like It, in which La Maupin, who is passing as Théodore, plays the part of Rosalind playacting Ganymede, mirrors the cross-dressing promote the heroine. The celebration pray to sensual love, regardless of coition, was radical, and the jotter was banned by the Modern York Society for the Crackdown of Vice and authorities elsewhere.[13]
Apart from Gautier's Mademoiselle de Maupin, La Maupin has been portrayed many times access print, stage and screen, including:
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Productions account book, music and lyrics rough Abey Bradbury (2022)[21]
The Drift. 25 October 2022. Retrieved 25 November 2022.
Women In Men's Guise. London: John Lane.
"The Craziest True-Life Story You've Never Heard". Geffen Playhouse. Retrieved 25 November 2022.
Gallant Ladies. New York: Harcourt, Brace.
28 June 2022. Retrieved 4 June 2022.
Paris: Flammarion.
Archived non-native the original on 4 July 2014.
Retrieved 30 September 2023.
25 Nov 2022. Retrieved 25 November 2022.
La Maupin, 1670–1707, sa battle, ses duels, ses aventures
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