Feb. 16, 2026

Long Urban Hair: Julie d’Aubigny

Long Urban Hair: Julie d’Aubigny
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A sword in one hand and an aria on her lips—Julie D’Aubigny refused to live small. We follow her wild arc from a court-trained tomboy who mastered the rapier to a fugitive busking in taverns, then to a contralto who conquered the Paris Opera under the gaze of Louis XIV. Along the way she loved boldly, dressed as she pleased, and treated the law like a suggestion. When a forbidden romance led to a convent heist and a fire, officials sentenced “Sir D’Aubigny” to death by flame, unaware the outlaw they feared was a young woman who sang as fiercely as she fought.

Her comeback reads like theater: a royal pardon, a showstopping debut as a war goddess, and a voice that made audiences forget the scandal while feeding it. At Versailles she kissed a noblewoman on the dance floor, met three offended suitors outside, and beat them one by one before strolling back in like nothing happened. Exile to Brussels brought sharper drama, including a too-real stage stabbing, but Paris couldn’t resist her for long. With a second pardon, she hit her peak—originating roles tailored to her range, embodying sorceresses and queens, and turning her legend into box-office gold.

Beneath the bravado sits a beating heart. We sit with the tender, quieter years when she found real peace with a marquise who matched her fire, only to lose her to a sudden fever. That loss dimmed the spotlight and closed a life that burned fast and bright. Through duels, disguises, and defiance, Julie becomes more than a headline; she’s a queer icon before the term, an athlete of voice and blade, and a reminder that art thrives where courage collides with consequence.

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00:00 - Meet Julie, The Operatic Outlaw

05:56 - A Tomboy Forged At Court

12:00 - Runaway With A Duelist

19:48 - Marseille Stages And New Passions

23:20 - The Convent Heist And Fire

28:12 - Paris Pardon And Stage Debut

33:10 - Fame, Fencing, And Versailles Duels

39:30 - Exile To Brussels And Sharper Drama

43:50 - Second Pardon, Peak Stardom

48:20 - Love, Quiet Years, Sudden Loss

52:00 - Legacy, Myths, And Sign-Off

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Oh hey there.

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Oh hey there.

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I'm Kate.

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And I'm Bradley.

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And this is History Puffoons.

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Welcome.

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Yes, how are you?

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I am well.

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How are you?

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I'm good.

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Excellent.

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Uh today we're gonna talk about Julie de Migny.

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What is it?

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De Migny?

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It's French.

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Oh, French.

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Julie de Bigny.

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I believe you.

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Um, she is a 17th century French opera star who also doubled men, wore men's clothing, okay, and survived death sentences, royal scandals, and the burning down of a convent.

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It sounded like you were gonna say scandals and scoundrels at the same time.

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Because you said scoundals.

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Scandals.

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Scandals.

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Excellent.

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Well, I look forward to learning.

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What's her first name?

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Because I'm just Julie.

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Julie, okay.

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Which is what I'm gonna call her for the rest of the episode.

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What do you got to drink?

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Um, I've got a blonde Belgian.

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I think that's the brand.

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I believe so.

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By Noble Roots.

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Oh, okay.

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Sorry, it's by Noble Roots Brewing Company, but I think that's the name, just blonde Belgian.

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Yeah.

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And it looks like a monk who's trying to pee.

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I mean, or he's just looking back seductively, like, hey.

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Hey.

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Look at me.

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You're looking at my ankles.

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Are you looking at my bald head that I shaved this morning?

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Except for around there.

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I don't I never understood that hairstyle for them, but maybe it got him closer to God.

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I am having a stone brewery, which I believe is from um, I want to say it's from California.

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Maybe I'm wrong.

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Mine's from Green Bay.

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Oh, fucking hell.

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I know.

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I didn't know that.

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No, not California.

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Just tell me where the fuck you're from.

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Okay.

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Anyways.

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Mine's a 7.1 ABV.

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Right row.

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Mine's an 8.5.

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Right row.

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And I also didn't realize that.

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Now I'm pissed I can't see where they're from.

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I thought they were from the upper northwest, but Okay.

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I am 46, so I am not what you call a spring fucking chicken.

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Don't put light silvery writing on a white fucking label.

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Yeah.

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But anyways, this is mine.

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It is I think it's from Appleton.

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Stone?

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Yeah.

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No, it's not.

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Stone Brewing, Craft Brew Beer and Brewing Tours.

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Stone Arch Brew Pub.

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That Stone Arch?

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I don't think that's what that is, though.

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Isn't that different?

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Well, I'd read it if you know it was easier.

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Um go to their website.

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I'm gonna say they're from Appleton.

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Yeah, they are from California, like I said.

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So anyways.

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Stone Arch and just stone is wrong.

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So, anyways, I have uh an FML, which usually means fuck my life.

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Yeah.

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But this one means fear.

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Movie, lions.

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Not sure what the fuck that means.

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So I'm already confused.

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More than I normally am, which is a lot.

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But it's a hazy double IPA and it's eight and a half.

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And I also didn't realize when I bought them.

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16 ounces, so I got 32 ounces of 8.5.

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Good luck, Bradley.

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Have you seen the movie Second Hand Lions with Joel Osmond?

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I know of it.

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I've never.

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It's so good.

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Your kids would love it.

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Okay.

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It's definitely a good family movie.

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I'll have to uh watch that with them on my.

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Cheers.

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Cheers.

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And Robert Duvall is in it.

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Holy bucket.

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Woo!

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Strong?

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I don't know what that is.

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It's a Belgian blonde ale.

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Blonde Belgian.

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I don't know what that is.

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I need a second try.

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Mine is really good.

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It's haze.

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It's doubly.

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It's IPA.

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I'm not sure.

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I'm not, I'm not, I'm not not sure.

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I I was shocked when you picked that one.

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I'm like, all right, let's go.

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Is it alcohol-y?

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Can you taste alcohol?

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No.

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No, it's just the flavor.

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Yeah.

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It's just well, if you don't like it, maybe Nathan will drink it.

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I mean, I'll try one just to see.

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I don't know.

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He doesn't like lights, but he's flavorful enough that he might like it.

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Yeah.

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In a pinch.

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Yeah.

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But I'll try one too just because that's probably somewhere along the lines of the oh, I just lost a fucking brewery name.

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God damn it.

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My brother really likes this one.

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I like it too, but oh my god, I just lost it.

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Anyways, we'll move on because we'll be here for fucking hours.

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My mind is not what you would call a steel trap.

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It loses lots of things.

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There's a sieve up there.

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Oh.

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I don't think anything actually goes in.

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You've got a sieve with like really tiny holes.

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I have a sieve with very large holes.

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Your short-term memory is fucking awful.

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To be polite.

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Your long-term memory.

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It's better, but I'm not gonna say it's a hundred percent, but it's it's definitely better than your short term.

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I don't know.

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Nathan will be like, this happened and this happened.

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And like when?

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Big big events.

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And I'll be like, yeah, don't.

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Yeah, like Christmas.

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You're like, what?

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What is that?

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I turned I had a birthday?

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9-11.

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What?

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Come on.

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Okay.

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So Miss Julie.

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Julie.

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Yeah, she was born around 1673 in Paris.

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Okay.

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Although some accounts say it's 1670.

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Oh my god, a three-year difference.

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Yes.

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What shall we do?

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And her father was Gaston Dubigny.

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Dubigny.

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There we go.

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Dubigny.

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There we go.

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He was a Gaston Dubany or he is Gaston.

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His name was Gaston Dubigny.

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I know it sounded like it sounded like he said he was a Gaston.

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What?

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He was a Gaston the Dubiny family.

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I mean, what?

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Gaston, like in Beauty and the Beast.

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Yes, Dubigny.

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Apparently that's a very Frenchie name, huh?

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Gaston.

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Yep.

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So he actually had a very enviable job.

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What did he do?

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He was secretary to Louis de Lorraine, the Count de Dominiac.

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I have no idea what the fuck that means.

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Essentially, it is King Louis XIV's master of horse.

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So he was secretary to the king's master of horse.

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He was the horse master?

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No, he was the sec, he took the notes for the horses.

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He's like, oh, that's a fine mare.

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Let me write that down.

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15 four hands.

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So wait, that doesn't make sense.

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So hit so his boss, Count the Count des Dominiac was a very high-ranking official.

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Um, he did he was in charge of everything with the king's horses and all the king's men.

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Just kidding.

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You see what I did there?

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Fucking Humpty Dumpty, am I right?

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And he had a lot of power.

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So he's like, but sir, this one has to go out to stud now.

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I mean, what the fuck?

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What horse master?

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Yes.

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Master of horse.

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Master of horse.

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Oh my god.

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I kind of like horse master better.

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I mean.

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Okay, so he had this job was very enviable because obviously it's linked to the crown in a way.

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Yeah.

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Even though it's not royal, of course.

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Yes.

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But it was probably, especially in this late 1600s, a very uh important job because, well, they didn't have cars.

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Yeah, exactly.

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Julie had literal horsepower.

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So this placed Julie's family uh right into the royal court orbit, and her childhood um environment were was so unique that very few girls had this type of chance.

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What what Louis was this again?

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I'm sorry.

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Fourteen.

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Fourteen, okay.

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So Gaston Dubigny was an expert swordsman.

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Oh he was also a charming troublemaker with bad habits, and he was known for his drinking, his gambling, and nightly adventures.

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And his horse mastering?

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No, Secretary II.

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It's kind of funny because my favorite horse is Secretariat.

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Oh, I see what you did there.

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Yeah.

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But he saw no reason to race his only um raise his only?

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Raise his only child, female child.

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Because it sounded like you said race.

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Like that would be fucked up.

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All right, you see this this mare?

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You're gonna race her.

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Good luck, sweetie.

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No, he saw no reason to raise his only daughter differently than a boy.

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A boy.

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Yeah.

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So she became a tomboy.

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While she while others were learning embroidery and etiquette and how to tighten up a corset or whatever.

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You mean etiquette?

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Yeah, what'd I say?

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Eloquet?

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Etiquette.

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I think I'm gonna listen to that again.

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I have to because I have to edit this.

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So that's gonna be interesting.

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Julie was learning how to duel.

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Okay.

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So by age 12, she could beat grown men with a rapier, which is a long, thin, lightweight sword.

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Yeah designed mainly for thrusting or stabbing.

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Yeah.

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Um, and she could out drink and out curse many of them, too.

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Oh, fucking hell right, she can.

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So her brother made sure she read I do it like the best.

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Give me a pint, fucking A.

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Except for France.

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So her father made sure she received the same education as the boys literature, language, dancing, um, and of course, fencing.

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Did they have uh uh does she have siblings or did the the Gaston have other kids?

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This was the only child.

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Okay.

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So she would dress in men's pants.

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She began doing that as a youth, and that carried on throughout her life.

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So she slipped on a pair of pants.

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She slipped on a pair of pants.

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She slipped on a pair of trousers.

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Yeah.

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Julie um launged and parried with uncanny skill, often leaving her sparing partners a little bit bruised, both body and ego.

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Barring.

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What'd I say?

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Sparing.

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I think I'm right.

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I don't think you're right at all.

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So those early years forged her into a formidable talent.

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Okay.

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Okay.

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Yeah.

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The pages at court whispered that she was like the best fencer among them.

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So books could talk?

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Yes.

00:11:06.960 --> 00:11:10.960
And if anyone doubted a girl could fight so well, Julie was happily.

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She'd be like, I'll fucking prove it.

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Prove it.

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Yeah, because like, yeah, you little fucks.

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Sometimes she would even rip open her shirt to show her bosom.

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Oh, scandal.

00:11:20.240 --> 00:11:22.080
Be like, see, I really am a girl.

00:11:22.320 --> 00:11:23.600
Yeah, I got tatas.

00:11:23.919 --> 00:11:25.440
How much did 12-year-olds really have?

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And I don't want to stop talking about this right fucking no.

00:11:28.480 --> 00:11:28.879
That's gross.

00:11:29.120 --> 00:11:41.039
So it said on one occasion when a jeering spectator at a fencing expedition cried out that, quote, the youth, end quote, couldn't possibly be female.

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And Julie responded with flashing her boobs to settle the question and then vanquished her opponent amongst everyone's laughter because that would be a sight to see.

00:11:51.360 --> 00:11:51.919
She killed him.

00:11:52.080 --> 00:11:53.360
She was not a shy woman.

00:11:53.600 --> 00:11:54.320
Well, clearly.

00:11:54.480 --> 00:11:56.879
I mean, the way she was sounds like the way she was raised.

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She's a kid still.

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She's 12.

00:11:59.120 --> 00:11:59.519
Well, yeah.

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And I mean, my I my kids aren't that old, but man, there's times like obviously Xavier will get shy in certain situations, of course.

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But around me, he'll say the we might have to take a pause to get her a different beer, but we'll see.

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But he'll like um obviously goof around with me a lot and everything.

00:12:20.559 --> 00:12:22.399
So yeah, some of this is like, what?

00:12:23.039 --> 00:12:23.519
All right.

00:12:23.679 --> 00:12:29.759
So I can imagine only five years or however older than my son, she's like, yeah, fuck this.

00:12:31.840 --> 00:12:36.879
So Julie's upbringing brought her in contact with other great and powerful people.

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Sure.

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And the court de Armagnac, uh Almagnac, her father's boss.

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Yeah, the horse master, master of horse.

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Noticed Julie.

00:12:46.159 --> 00:12:46.480
Oh.

00:12:47.360 --> 00:12:48.639
In a what kind of way?

00:12:48.960 --> 00:12:52.480
Well, he thought she was a striking teenager.

00:12:52.799 --> 00:12:54.399
I kinda thought that's where this was going.

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She was tall, athletic, and she had long, long urban hair, urban auburn hair.

00:13:05.039 --> 00:13:07.519
Long urban hair.

00:13:08.080 --> 00:13:10.960
It's way, it's way better than rural hair.

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At least you don't got that city hair, am I right?

00:13:16.399 --> 00:13:18.399
You don't got that city hair.

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What the fuck?

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Okay, so by age 14, but now everybody's getting married at this time, so well, and that's what I was just gonna say.

00:13:28.080 --> 00:13:35.200
So okay, whether it's 70 or 73, so we're talking 84, 87, 16, 84, 87.

00:13:36.159 --> 00:13:39.440
Hey, it's time for you to yeah, did you bleed yet?

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I mean, that's what they did though.

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I know, which is fucking weird.

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Times were different.

00:13:45.200 --> 00:13:45.759
Times were different.

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I mean, this is 350 years ago.

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So by age 14, 14, Julie became the Count de Almignac's uh mistress.

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Oh, and it was a scandalous arrangement, but high-making high-ranking men in Louis the Fourteenth's court were accustomed to having their way, as is the master of horse.

00:14:08.639 --> 00:14:08.799
Sure.

00:14:09.360 --> 00:14:12.879
To avoid any additional scandal at court, because it's not enough.

00:14:13.120 --> 00:14:14.000
Dad got fired.

00:14:14.240 --> 00:14:19.279
The Count arranged to marry Julie off to someone super convenient.

00:14:19.440 --> 00:14:21.039
They're like, that he looks good.

00:14:21.200 --> 00:14:21.600
Yeah.

00:14:21.919 --> 00:14:22.799
See that guy over there?

00:14:22.879 --> 00:14:23.519
He's breathing.

00:14:23.679 --> 00:14:24.080
Yeah.

00:14:24.399 --> 00:14:28.960
So Julie Dubigny became Madame Julie Lamaupin.

00:14:29.279 --> 00:14:30.000
La Maupin?

00:14:30.480 --> 00:14:30.799
Yep.

00:14:30.879 --> 00:14:39.200
She mar she was married to Sir de Maupin, a mild-mandered court clerk, marriage uh paperwork only.

00:14:39.440 --> 00:14:40.000
Like there was nothing.

00:14:40.399 --> 00:14:41.600
It was a marriage of convenience.

00:14:41.679 --> 00:14:45.200
It was just to say, hey, look at she's married, but she can go fuck that guy.

00:14:45.279 --> 00:14:45.519
Yeah.

00:14:45.679 --> 00:14:46.240
Kind of thing.

00:14:46.559 --> 00:14:55.200
So immediately after the wedding, around 1687, the poor husband was shuffled off to somewhere in France, banished to the countryside.

00:14:55.360 --> 00:15:03.039
It's kind of like when you see, like um, well, I made you watch the band in Iron Man, it's like put them on the front lines and happens to die or something.

00:15:03.360 --> 00:15:03.679
Exactly.

00:15:04.000 --> 00:15:07.039
Or ship him to Siberia or whatever, you know.

00:15:07.279 --> 00:15:07.759
Yep.

00:15:07.919 --> 00:15:16.399
So Julie stayed in Paris with the Count, officially wed, but also Day Amagnac's teenage lover, whatever.

00:15:16.720 --> 00:15:17.039
Weird.

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Don't say those words ever again.

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That's fucking weird.

00:15:20.320 --> 00:15:20.639
Yes.

00:15:20.799 --> 00:15:25.039
So for a time, Julie enjoyed her status as the Count's protege.

00:15:25.279 --> 00:15:25.679
I'm sure.

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But Julie was never meant to stay someone's pet for long.

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No, I can imagine.

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Not the way she's coming about, we'll say.

00:15:34.559 --> 00:15:38.879
So already close to 16 years old, she met a new lover.

00:15:39.120 --> 00:15:39.679
Oh shit.

00:15:39.919 --> 00:15:41.919
Who would change her life a little bit.

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A hot-headed fencer named Serene.

00:15:47.440 --> 00:15:48.080
Saranen?

00:15:48.240 --> 00:15:48.799
Saranen.

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Can you spell it once for me just so I kind of can wrap my head around it?

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Saran.

00:15:52.559 --> 00:15:52.799
Saren.

00:15:53.440 --> 00:15:53.840
Well, whatever.

00:15:53.919 --> 00:15:54.320
Or don't.

00:15:54.399 --> 00:15:54.879
But either way.

00:15:55.519 --> 00:15:58.000
S-E-R-A-N-N-E.

00:15:58.240 --> 00:15:59.279
Like Sar Ann.

00:15:59.519 --> 00:16:00.080
Saran.

00:16:00.320 --> 00:16:00.799
Sarran?

00:16:01.279 --> 00:16:04.879
But it's he's male, so I'm guessing it could be a little more.

00:16:05.840 --> 00:16:06.399
Saran, maybe.

00:16:06.639 --> 00:16:07.279
I'd say saran.

00:16:07.759 --> 00:16:08.480
I like saran.

00:16:08.799 --> 00:16:10.639
I think that's better than hey saran.

00:16:11.200 --> 00:16:12.159
Saran ramp.

00:16:12.320 --> 00:16:13.120
Saran rap.

00:16:13.279 --> 00:16:14.399
Oh, what's his middle name?

00:16:14.720 --> 00:16:15.279
Rapah.

00:16:15.519 --> 00:16:16.080
Rapah.

00:16:16.960 --> 00:16:20.159
So saran was skilled with a blade.

00:16:20.399 --> 00:16:23.840
Probably what they use in the saran wrap cutting things, you know?

00:16:26.559 --> 00:16:28.720
How old was Saran wrap?

00:16:29.120 --> 00:16:29.759
I don't know.

00:16:29.840 --> 00:16:30.559
I didn't look that up.

00:16:30.799 --> 00:16:32.559
That seems pertinent, but alright.

00:16:33.679 --> 00:16:36.320
Um, he was equally skilled at finding trouble.

00:16:37.120 --> 00:16:37.600
Equally?

00:16:37.840 --> 00:16:38.159
Yes.

00:16:38.320 --> 00:16:42.159
He killed a man in an illegal duel on the streets of Paris.

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Dueling had been officially outlawed by King's Command.

00:16:46.399 --> 00:16:46.639
Yes.

00:16:46.799 --> 00:16:50.159
And the authorities did not take kindly to breaches of the peace.

00:16:50.320 --> 00:16:50.720
Right.

00:16:51.039 --> 00:16:58.000
So suddenly facing the gallows, Saran decided to flee Paris, and Julie refused to be left behind.

00:16:58.240 --> 00:16:59.440
Oh, so she wanted to leave?

00:16:59.919 --> 00:17:00.799
She ran off with him.

00:17:01.200 --> 00:17:03.679
Even with her status, if you will.

00:17:04.319 --> 00:17:04.640
Okay.

00:17:05.599 --> 00:17:07.200
She must have really loved this guy.

00:17:07.359 --> 00:17:07.680
Well.

00:17:07.920 --> 00:17:10.480
She wanted to be wrapped up in Saran.

00:17:12.720 --> 00:17:13.759
Fucking hell.

00:17:14.000 --> 00:17:20.079
She was a wanted man's accomplice now, and the Paris police were on their heels.

00:17:20.319 --> 00:17:27.519
So Julie, um, Julie's life um finally began then as a fugitive and traveling performer.

00:17:27.839 --> 00:17:28.079
Nice.

00:17:28.240 --> 00:17:29.119
What did she perform?

00:17:29.440 --> 00:17:39.680
Julie and Saran roamed the French countryside, making a living however they could, which is typically fencing demonstrations with song.

00:17:40.319 --> 00:17:41.200
Who sang?

00:17:41.440 --> 00:17:42.079
They did.

00:17:42.319 --> 00:17:43.440
They both sang.

00:17:43.759 --> 00:17:45.119
Look at me, Perry.

00:17:45.519 --> 00:17:46.240
Yeah, exactly.

00:17:46.480 --> 00:17:47.279
I'm really good.

00:17:47.519 --> 00:17:48.640
Yeah, stab stab.

00:17:48.799 --> 00:17:49.920
I'm gonna take your money.

00:17:50.160 --> 00:17:50.880
Stab stab.

00:17:51.039 --> 00:17:51.839
Stab stab.

00:17:52.079 --> 00:17:52.400
Yes.

00:17:52.559 --> 00:17:52.880
Okay.

00:17:53.200 --> 00:18:01.119
So um they would work in village marketplaces and tavern courtyards and all with like flashy sword play.

00:18:01.359 --> 00:18:05.839
So I'm gonna say this with all the love of the modern conveniences that we have.

00:18:06.000 --> 00:18:12.160
I would love to be able to travel back in time and just go to a tavern in like medieval times.

00:18:13.039 --> 00:18:18.960
And bonk ales and pints and stuff with the local folk, and then be like, uh, peace off.

00:18:19.039 --> 00:18:20.319
I'm fucking back to the future.

00:18:20.960 --> 00:18:23.119
I'm Marty McFly in this shit.

00:18:23.519 --> 00:18:30.160
So Julie dressed in men's attire, boots, britches, swordmen's fitted jackets.

00:18:30.480 --> 00:18:32.160
Did the boots have the fur?

00:18:33.599 --> 00:18:39.680
And and he she would duel Sir Sarayan or any local who dared to challenge her.

00:18:39.920 --> 00:18:42.079
Do you know what this kind of reminds me a little bit?

00:18:42.160 --> 00:18:43.839
Uh obviously very loosely.

00:18:44.640 --> 00:18:46.000
Annie Oakley and her husband.

00:18:46.160 --> 00:18:46.720
Yeah, yeah.

00:18:46.960 --> 00:18:49.119
Doesn't it kind of like have similarities?

00:18:49.359 --> 00:18:50.799
Not exactly, obviously.

00:18:50.960 --> 00:18:51.279
Yeah.

00:18:51.440 --> 00:18:53.920
But like she's with this guy, they're dueling.

00:18:54.000 --> 00:18:57.599
Hey, we like each other because we're dissimilar and blah blah blah, whatever.

00:18:57.759 --> 00:19:00.559
It's just kind of funny how that's got a very similar vibe to it.

00:19:00.720 --> 00:19:02.880
And kids are all about the vibes these days.

00:19:03.039 --> 00:19:03.519
Yeah.

00:19:04.960 --> 00:19:13.759
So more than a few heckled the sight of a boy beating a grown man only to be doubly stunned when Julie revealed herself as a woman.

00:19:14.000 --> 00:19:15.680
Does she keep showing her boobs to everybody?

00:19:15.839 --> 00:19:16.400
Pretty much, yeah.

00:19:16.559 --> 00:19:18.000
Jesus, what a horror.

00:19:18.720 --> 00:19:27.359
Between duels, Julie and Saran added music to their repertoire, singing duets and popular ballads to entertain patrons in taverns.

00:19:27.519 --> 00:19:27.759
Okay.

00:19:27.920 --> 00:19:31.039
And Julie's voice, as it turned out, was quite impressive.

00:19:31.359 --> 00:19:32.000
Quite lovely.

00:19:32.799 --> 00:19:34.799
She'd never had any formal training.

00:19:34.880 --> 00:19:37.119
She, but she could carry a tune.

00:19:37.759 --> 00:19:48.640
You know, in her upbringing, being close to court and everything, and probably being in court, and obviously, she probably picked up on some shit because of that, because that was their form of entertainment back then.

00:19:48.880 --> 00:19:51.279
It's not like, hey man, could you put on a CD?

00:19:52.000 --> 00:19:53.519
No, sing fucker.

00:19:54.240 --> 00:20:01.680
So by 1688, the traveling duo found themselves in Marseille, which had recently established a new opera company.

00:20:01.920 --> 00:20:02.880
Oh, fantastic.

00:20:03.119 --> 00:20:08.160
The Opera de Marseille offered Julie a chance to sing on stage.

00:20:08.319 --> 00:20:17.200
So she made her unofficial debut in Marseille, taking on small roles under her maiden name so that the police wouldn't notice who she was.

00:20:17.519 --> 00:20:19.680
So she was back to Dubin Dubany, right?

00:20:19.839 --> 00:20:20.000
Yes.

00:20:20.240 --> 00:20:20.400
Right?

00:20:21.200 --> 00:20:22.400
Dubai, yeah, good job.

00:20:22.640 --> 00:20:24.400
Fucking hell, look at me go, Julie.

00:20:24.640 --> 00:20:29.759
So night after night, she wowed local um audiences who knew nothing of her past.

00:20:30.000 --> 00:20:37.759
They simply saw a captivating young woman, young woman, yeah, with voice and charisma.

00:20:38.000 --> 00:20:42.079
So how far is Marseille from from Paris?

00:20:42.240 --> 00:20:45.359
Like, is this is that a a good de gent?

00:20:45.759 --> 00:20:46.319
I don't know.

00:20:46.480 --> 00:20:55.920
Because like I I wonder, like I can't imagine that the the Paris I mean you you call them police, but was that what they really were?

00:20:56.319 --> 00:21:01.599
Yeah, it was like a newly formed okay so eight hours by car.

00:21:01.920 --> 00:21:02.640
Different.

00:21:02.960 --> 00:21:05.279
Well, good thing they didn't have cars back then.

00:21:06.079 --> 00:21:08.240
So quite a decent distance then.

00:21:08.480 --> 00:21:09.039
A little bit.

00:21:09.279 --> 00:21:16.640
I mean, if you're going, you know, eighty miles per hour, eight hours, that's it's a good distance.

00:21:16.880 --> 00:21:18.640
Yeah, it's it's a little little ways.

00:21:18.960 --> 00:21:19.440
Yeah, okay.

00:21:19.599 --> 00:21:35.519
I was just curious because like proximity-wise, they're establishing this new life in the opera, this new opera that just opened up and whatever, but like if they were like, oh, dude, Paris is like 10 minutes down the road, it could easily get her, obviously.

00:21:35.599 --> 00:21:37.279
But I figured it had to be some distance at all.

00:21:37.359 --> 00:21:38.799
I'm trying to say, anyways.

00:21:39.359 --> 00:21:49.279
So Julie discovered that she loved the stage, the glow of the floodlights, the roar of the applause, um, the way that she could be someone else.

00:21:50.480 --> 00:21:56.880
She could play a character and she really liked being that character, or even for the short time she was it, kind of thing.

00:21:56.960 --> 00:21:57.599
Yeah, I get that.

00:21:57.839 --> 00:21:59.839
But of course, trouble was never far behind Julie.

00:22:00.319 --> 00:22:03.279
And in Marseille, she murdered somebody?

00:22:03.440 --> 00:22:03.680
No.

00:22:03.839 --> 00:22:04.160
Oh.

00:22:04.400 --> 00:22:06.880
She would become the stuff of legend.

00:22:07.200 --> 00:22:10.319
Among her admirers in the south was a young woman.

00:22:10.559 --> 00:22:11.119
Oh dear.

00:22:11.359 --> 00:22:15.519
Identified in later accounts as Cecilia Bortigali.

00:22:16.000 --> 00:22:16.799
Bortigali.

00:22:17.039 --> 00:22:21.119
The daughter of either a local merchant or a minor nobility unknown.

00:22:21.279 --> 00:22:21.599
Okay.

00:22:21.920 --> 00:22:27.200
The two men, nope, the two women fell deeply in love.

00:22:27.440 --> 00:22:31.519
Oh, so so all of a sudden it's like, oh, Saran.

00:22:32.160 --> 00:22:33.920
I I like it the breast now.

00:22:34.240 --> 00:22:35.039
Saran.

00:22:35.599 --> 00:22:36.160
Sarah.

00:22:36.319 --> 00:22:36.400
K.

00:22:36.640 --> 00:22:37.039
Sarah.

00:22:37.279 --> 00:22:38.480
We're gonna wrap this up.

00:22:39.839 --> 00:22:40.160
Okay.

00:22:40.640 --> 00:22:42.240
So did she break up with Saran?

00:22:42.400 --> 00:22:42.559
Yes.

00:22:43.119 --> 00:22:44.400
Oh, poor Saran.

00:22:44.480 --> 00:22:45.759
Whatever happened to Saran then.

00:22:46.079 --> 00:22:50.799
So for a few blissful weeks or months, Julie and this girl carried on in secret.

00:22:51.039 --> 00:22:51.599
Oh dear.

00:22:51.839 --> 00:22:55.119
17th century France was not kind to lovers like them.

00:22:55.440 --> 00:22:56.000
Of course not.

00:22:56.160 --> 00:23:00.720
And when Cecilia's family heard of the affair, they were horrified.

00:23:00.960 --> 00:23:01.359
Sure.

00:23:01.599 --> 00:23:08.160
So to thwart the scandal and separate the pair, the family did what many families did.

00:23:08.240 --> 00:23:11.359
What wealthy families did.

00:23:11.920 --> 00:23:14.480
They shut Cecilia away in a convent.

00:23:14.799 --> 00:23:15.440
Oh boy.

00:23:15.599 --> 00:23:17.119
So she became a nun.

00:23:17.440 --> 00:23:18.000
Yes.

00:23:19.359 --> 00:23:20.160
Specifically.

00:23:21.359 --> 00:23:21.920
That was interesting.

00:23:22.160 --> 00:23:28.240
She was sent off to a convent in Avignon, removing her from Julie's reach.

00:23:28.480 --> 00:23:30.079
We've talked about Avignon before.

00:23:32.640 --> 00:23:34.720
Julie was not about to give up all news.

00:23:35.039 --> 00:23:36.799
So she's like, I'm gonna go to the convent too.

00:23:37.200 --> 00:23:38.880
She infiltrated the convent.

00:23:39.440 --> 00:23:44.480
Like she dug a tunnel and no, under the pretext of religious calling.

00:23:44.720 --> 00:23:45.440
Oh, Jesus Christ.

00:23:45.680 --> 00:23:49.680
She entered the convent as a postulant, which is a trainee nun.

00:23:50.319 --> 00:23:51.519
Right, of course, yeah.

00:23:51.680 --> 00:23:54.000
So Julie reunited with Cecilia behind the.

00:23:54.319 --> 00:23:56.640
So Cecilia's like just overjoyed with lust.

00:23:56.880 --> 00:23:57.759
We're gonna say so.

00:23:57.920 --> 00:23:58.240
Okay.

00:23:58.559 --> 00:24:01.359
Um, the two resumed their affair in secret.

00:24:01.440 --> 00:24:05.680
Um, and for a time they did all the things.

00:24:06.400 --> 00:24:07.200
Well, you know.

00:24:07.440 --> 00:24:09.599
But inevitably, inevitably.

00:24:09.920 --> 00:24:12.079
Indubitably, inevitably.

00:24:12.319 --> 00:24:18.240
So whether out of boredom or a genuine desire to abscond with her beloved.

00:24:18.720 --> 00:24:20.160
Upscond, I love that word.

00:24:20.480 --> 00:24:24.000
Julie hatched out a dramatic escape plan.

00:24:24.400 --> 00:24:24.720
Okay.

00:24:25.039 --> 00:24:32.000
One of the elder nuns at the convent happily happened to pass away from natural causes.

00:24:32.319 --> 00:24:34.319
Oh, thank God it wasn't nefarious.

00:24:34.640 --> 00:24:36.240
But Julie saw an opportunity.

00:24:36.480 --> 00:24:37.200
I'm sure she did.

00:24:37.440 --> 00:24:42.079
She and Cecilia stole the corpse of the deceased nun from its coffin.

00:24:42.319 --> 00:24:43.039
Oh fuck.

00:24:43.279 --> 00:24:49.839
They snuck into Cecilia's dormitory cell and placed the body in Cecilia's bed, tucking it away as if she were sleeping.

00:24:53.200 --> 00:24:55.119
And then they set the room on fire.

00:24:55.440 --> 00:24:56.640
Oh fuck.

00:24:58.319 --> 00:24:58.960
Yeah.

00:25:00.160 --> 00:25:01.759
So okay.

00:25:02.559 --> 00:25:05.519
Were people not buried right away back then?

00:25:05.599 --> 00:25:06.880
So they could get to the coffin.

00:25:06.960 --> 00:25:10.400
And like, did anyone ever look in the coffin again?

00:25:10.720 --> 00:25:14.960
Well, they did find out that it wasn't Cecilia.

00:25:15.359 --> 00:25:18.000
Clearly, it's like, yeah, well, this doesn't look like her.

00:25:18.079 --> 00:25:19.519
This looks like an 80-year-old nun.

00:25:19.759 --> 00:25:20.880
And that's exactly what happened.

00:25:20.960 --> 00:25:22.640
They're like, that age doesn't match.

00:25:22.880 --> 00:25:23.200
Nope.

00:25:23.440 --> 00:25:27.599
Um, but Julie and her and Cecilia fled into the night.

00:25:27.839 --> 00:25:31.200
Um, but they uh it didn't work.

00:25:31.359 --> 00:25:32.559
It obviously didn't work.

00:25:32.799 --> 00:25:34.240
For a few days, it did.

00:25:34.480 --> 00:25:36.960
But is isn't that enough time to get them away, though?

00:25:37.200 --> 00:25:37.839
It did.

00:25:38.079 --> 00:25:40.640
But were they dumb and stayed in town?

00:25:40.880 --> 00:25:41.519
No, I don't.

00:25:41.920 --> 00:25:42.240
Okay.

00:25:42.559 --> 00:25:42.880
No.

00:25:43.599 --> 00:25:53.440
Um, they enjoyed their little illicit honeymoon um hiding out in the countrysides, but authorities eventually discovered the ruse.

00:25:53.519 --> 00:26:02.000
And when the truth came out, the parliament was outraged at this crime that combined kidnapping, arson, and sacrilege.

00:26:02.799 --> 00:26:03.359
What kidnapping?

00:26:05.119 --> 00:26:11.759
They they think that um Julie kidnapped Cecilia because I'd how old was Cecilia?

00:26:11.839 --> 00:26:13.440
Did you did you say that I didn't know?

00:26:13.519 --> 00:26:17.599
I don't know how old she was, but but Julie was like 16.

00:26:18.400 --> 00:26:19.519
Still at this point?

00:26:19.759 --> 00:26:20.960
Yeah, she's young.

00:26:21.759 --> 00:26:24.160
Maybe 17, but young.

00:26:24.480 --> 00:26:24.880
Wow.

00:26:25.119 --> 00:26:25.599
Yeah.

00:26:25.920 --> 00:26:28.480
So they set out to make an example of her.

00:26:28.640 --> 00:26:30.079
There was a catch, however.

00:26:30.319 --> 00:26:35.519
They still thought the criminal was likely a man because who else would leave with a nun?

00:26:35.759 --> 00:26:36.079
Right.

00:26:36.799 --> 00:26:38.160
Because all men want nuns.

00:26:38.640 --> 00:26:46.160
So in her absence, under the name Sir Dubigny, Julie was charged and sentenced to death by fire.

00:26:46.880 --> 00:26:48.240
Like they were gonna burn her?

00:26:48.400 --> 00:26:48.880
Mm-hmm.

00:26:49.680 --> 00:26:50.319
Wow.

00:26:50.799 --> 00:26:58.079
So Julie Dubany, who was around 17, now had a price on her head and a death sentence hanging over her.

00:26:58.400 --> 00:26:58.720
Okay.

00:27:00.000 --> 00:27:02.400
So Cecilia turned her in.

00:27:02.720 --> 00:27:11.279
Well, Cecilia decided convent life was safer and returned to her family to be put in a convent.

00:27:11.599 --> 00:27:13.200
That's her parents talking, but all right.

00:27:14.000 --> 00:27:22.480
In any case, by 1688 or 1689, Julie found herself once again outlawed, facing execution if you're not.

00:27:25.599 --> 00:27:25.920
Wow.

00:27:26.160 --> 00:27:26.640
Yep.

00:27:27.039 --> 00:27:31.519
So she decided that she would try to go back to Paris.

00:27:32.799 --> 00:27:35.839
Face the music or just like pretty much on the DL.

00:27:36.160 --> 00:27:36.480
Okay.

00:27:36.720 --> 00:27:41.920
So on the road back, uh Julie um accumulated even more exploits.

00:27:42.160 --> 00:27:42.880
Oh boy.

00:27:43.119 --> 00:27:43.680
Yes.

00:27:43.920 --> 00:27:44.240
Okay.

00:27:44.559 --> 00:27:48.400
She stopped at an inn at a tavern one evening.

00:27:48.559 --> 00:27:52.319
Julie dressed as a man got into a spat with a young aristocrat.

00:27:52.640 --> 00:27:53.759
And she dueled him.

00:27:54.000 --> 00:27:57.200
The fellow was the son of a Duke.

00:27:57.839 --> 00:28:03.119
Did not realize that this young man was actually the notorious Julie.

00:28:03.279 --> 00:28:03.519
Yes.

00:28:03.839 --> 00:28:09.200
Insert flew, and the encounter um escalated to a duel outside.

00:28:09.440 --> 00:28:11.279
Nice, and they don't even know it's illegal.

00:28:11.440 --> 00:28:12.000
Nope.

00:28:12.240 --> 00:28:16.720
In dramatic effect, Julie wounded him, running her blade through his shoulder.

00:28:16.960 --> 00:28:18.000
Oh, fuck, that would hurt.

00:28:18.240 --> 00:28:29.279
The young man shocked and bleeding might have expected his victor victor to finish him off, but instead, Julie actually nursed the man back to health.

00:28:29.599 --> 00:28:31.279
Oh, and then they started banging.

00:28:31.440 --> 00:28:31.920
Yeah.

00:28:32.160 --> 00:28:33.200
Come on, really.

00:28:33.759 --> 00:28:35.279
It wasn't for a very long time.

00:28:35.440 --> 00:28:37.920
They actually ended up being like lifelong friends.

00:28:38.000 --> 00:28:42.319
They they were a little bit of so they were like, hey, let's go, bumpy bumpy.

00:28:42.400 --> 00:28:42.480
Yeah.

00:28:42.720 --> 00:28:44.720
And then they're like, you know what?

00:28:45.279 --> 00:28:46.000
We're friends.

00:28:46.160 --> 00:28:46.400
Yeah.

00:28:46.480 --> 00:28:46.640
Yeah.

00:28:46.880 --> 00:28:48.640
So were they friends with benefits?

00:28:48.880 --> 00:28:49.839
I think no.

00:28:51.039 --> 00:28:54.000
I think they were strangers with benefits, and then they became friends only.

00:28:54.400 --> 00:28:56.640
Did I ever hear the show Strangers with Candy?

00:28:56.880 --> 00:28:57.119
No.

00:28:57.279 --> 00:28:57.759
Anyway.

00:28:58.240 --> 00:29:07.440
So by the time she reached Paris in 1690, Julie knows she'd have the answer, she'd have to answer for the whole burning of the convent stuff.

00:29:07.680 --> 00:29:08.079
Yes.

00:29:08.240 --> 00:29:16.240
So be being incarcerated by royal decree was not on her to-do list, so she turned to her old benefactor for help.

00:29:16.559 --> 00:29:17.599
Her husband?

00:29:17.839 --> 00:29:20.160
The Count Des Armagnac.

00:29:20.400 --> 00:29:23.279
Oh, the one she was banging for a while, not her husband.

00:29:23.839 --> 00:29:25.200
Where's her husband in all this?

00:29:25.440 --> 00:29:27.359
He's still on the front lines.

00:29:27.680 --> 00:29:28.400
Wherever.

00:29:28.960 --> 00:29:30.880
He's still a tax collector.

00:29:31.119 --> 00:29:32.880
So I like taxes.

00:29:33.039 --> 00:29:33.759
I'm kidding.

00:29:34.000 --> 00:29:38.960
It had been a couple of years since she'd fled Paris, but the Count was still a man of influence at court.

00:29:39.279 --> 00:29:42.240
And he's probably like, You bang me, I help you.

00:29:42.799 --> 00:29:49.680
So she sought out Des Armagnac, and it explained her predicament, and Des Armagnac agreed to help.

00:29:49.839 --> 00:29:51.759
So he approached King Louis XIV.

00:29:52.400 --> 00:29:55.200
Oh, like directly?

00:29:55.440 --> 00:29:55.759
Yeah.

00:29:56.000 --> 00:29:56.960
Holy fuck.

00:29:57.200 --> 00:30:00.880
And he requested a royal pardon for Julie.

00:30:01.359 --> 00:30:02.000
Wow.

00:30:02.319 --> 00:30:07.680
Louis the Fourteenth, or the Sun King, as he was called, was known for his love of the arts.

00:30:07.839 --> 00:30:08.160
Yes.

00:30:08.480 --> 00:30:15.039
And for his weariness of dueling that would be disturbing the peace.

00:30:15.200 --> 00:30:15.519
Yes.

00:30:15.759 --> 00:30:17.440
But this case was unusual.

00:30:17.599 --> 00:30:25.680
It was a woman outlaw who was gifted, who was a gifted singer and a dangerous swordsman.

00:30:26.160 --> 00:30:26.880
Swordswoman?

00:30:27.039 --> 00:30:27.599
Swordswoman.

00:30:27.759 --> 00:30:29.519
Yeah, be fucking politically correct here.

00:30:29.599 --> 00:30:30.319
God damn it.

00:30:30.640 --> 00:30:36.640
So Louis XIV was amused enough to grant Julie d'Albigny a pardon.

00:30:36.880 --> 00:30:37.279
That's wild.

00:30:37.680 --> 00:30:39.359
Sparing her from the fire.

00:30:39.680 --> 00:30:40.240
The fire.

00:30:40.400 --> 00:30:44.160
And with a royal stroke of the pen, the death sentence was nullified.

00:30:44.400 --> 00:30:44.640
Wow.

00:30:45.039 --> 00:30:51.680
Julie was free, and in exchange, she had to pursue a cur uh career on the stage.

00:30:52.160 --> 00:30:53.200
In the arts, if you will.

00:30:53.359 --> 00:30:53.599
Yes.

00:30:53.920 --> 00:30:54.079
Okay.

00:30:54.240 --> 00:30:58.400
So around age 17, Julie entered the Paris opera.

00:30:59.039 --> 00:31:05.680
So okay, if this is 1890 and she's 17, she had it had to be fucking 73.

00:31:06.240 --> 00:31:09.119
I'm not going with 70, because otherwise she'd be 20.

00:31:11.039 --> 00:31:12.400
So fuck that.

00:31:12.799 --> 00:31:20.079
So it was the greatest stage in France, the Paris Opera, which Louis XIV himself had found in some years before.

00:31:20.319 --> 00:31:20.640
Yes.

00:31:20.880 --> 00:31:22.640
Gaining entry was not easy.

00:31:22.720 --> 00:31:26.319
The opera was a place for serious, formally trained performers.

00:31:26.480 --> 00:31:26.720
Yes.

00:31:26.880 --> 00:31:28.160
Julie was self-taught.

00:31:28.240 --> 00:31:29.200
She was a maverick.

00:31:29.279 --> 00:31:30.400
She had a reputation.

00:31:30.640 --> 00:31:30.960
Yep.

00:31:31.200 --> 00:31:34.000
At first the opera managers were reluctant.

00:31:34.240 --> 00:31:34.799
Oh dear.

00:31:35.200 --> 00:31:37.039
But Julie had allies.

00:31:37.440 --> 00:31:44.400
Well, I mean, she had some, she had some master of horses in her in her in her uh stable, if you will.

00:31:44.720 --> 00:31:55.920
So an aging singer named Bouvard and a young tenor named Gabrielle Vincent Fivenard, more lovers of hers, actually.

00:31:56.160 --> 00:31:56.880
Oh, Jesus Christ.

00:31:57.279 --> 00:32:05.039
Spoke up on her behalf, and they convinced the opera's director that no notoriety would sell as many tickets as talent.

00:32:05.119 --> 00:32:06.400
And Julie had both.

00:32:06.640 --> 00:32:07.119
Yes.

00:32:07.359 --> 00:32:09.680
So she was accepted into the troupe.

00:32:09.920 --> 00:32:10.240
Nice.

00:32:10.480 --> 00:32:16.319
In December 1690, Julie made her debut on the Paris stage as a war goddess.

00:32:16.640 --> 00:32:19.920
On opening night, the audience must have been buzzing.

00:32:20.079 --> 00:32:31.680
Many of many had heard rumors of this cross-dressing sword slinging contralto, as what she would be called, because her female voice was actually quite low.

00:32:31.920 --> 00:32:32.319
Was it?

00:32:32.400 --> 00:32:32.799
Mm-hmm.

00:32:32.960 --> 00:32:34.240
Sound like you said sword.

00:32:34.960 --> 00:32:35.359
I love that.

00:32:35.920 --> 00:32:36.319
Yeah.

00:32:36.559 --> 00:32:38.559
And she was pardoned by the king.

00:32:38.720 --> 00:32:39.599
So she had this.

00:32:40.160 --> 00:32:48.799
She had a she had a connection to adjacent to fame, whatever you want to call it, because clearly she had people in the know.

00:32:48.960 --> 00:32:49.200
Yes.

00:32:49.359 --> 00:32:54.960
If she could get a pardon from the fucking king, hey, let's go check this shit out.

00:32:55.359 --> 00:32:59.200
Maybe she'll show us her boobs and make to let us know she's a girl.

00:32:59.519 --> 00:33:00.880
So Jesus Christ.

00:33:01.200 --> 00:33:04.720
Julie stepped on stage and she did not disappoint.

00:33:04.880 --> 00:33:12.079
Her voice was a rich soprano, and then she became a contralto since her voice was lower.

00:33:12.240 --> 00:33:12.559
Yes.

00:33:12.720 --> 00:33:16.880
And she filled the hall with effortless power.

00:33:17.039 --> 00:33:18.559
Her acting was passionate.

00:33:18.640 --> 00:33:20.480
Her presence was electric.

00:33:21.039 --> 00:33:28.400
And at the climax of the aria, feeling the crowd's approval, Julie enacted a flourish that became legend.

00:33:28.640 --> 00:33:29.440
What is the aria?

00:33:30.079 --> 00:33:37.839
The aria is like the final um that would be like defined gravity of Wicked.

00:33:37.920 --> 00:33:42.559
Like the big number the the really big number of the show the show.

00:33:42.799 --> 00:33:42.880
Okay.

00:33:43.039 --> 00:33:44.160
The really big singing number of the show.

00:33:44.400 --> 00:33:46.880
The only aria I know is the casino in Vegas.

00:33:47.359 --> 00:33:48.400
So, anyways, okay.

00:33:51.039 --> 00:33:54.160
I don't know why that was it's like there, it's like the climax song.

00:33:54.400 --> 00:33:55.440
Oh no, I I gotcha.

00:33:55.759 --> 00:34:01.920
I was just saying the only aria I know is Vegas, and I love us uh I just almost call him fucking Oscar again.

00:34:02.079 --> 00:34:04.319
Oliver's uh feet.

00:34:05.119 --> 00:34:09.039
He's underneath the yeah, he's like, what you guys doing in there?

00:34:09.280 --> 00:34:10.719
We're recording, buddy.

00:34:11.039 --> 00:34:16.639
Okay, so Julie enacted uh she removed her helmet because she was playing a war goddess.

00:34:16.800 --> 00:34:17.199
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:34:17.760 --> 00:34:24.320
She removed her helmet to take a bow, letting her long hair tumble free down her shoulders.

00:34:24.559 --> 00:34:25.760
Yes, her urban hair.

00:34:26.480 --> 00:34:34.719
And the audience realized that this dashing war goddess was indeed the notorious Mademoiselle Julie.

00:34:35.199 --> 00:34:36.400
In the flesh.

00:34:37.280 --> 00:34:38.239
In die flesh.

00:34:38.559 --> 00:34:39.760
She was a hit.

00:34:40.000 --> 00:34:40.559
I'm sure.

00:34:40.719 --> 00:34:43.679
So from that night forward, Parisians would flock to see her.

00:34:43.840 --> 00:34:50.079
And for the next few years, 1690 to 1694, Julia was one of the opera's rising stars.

00:34:50.400 --> 00:34:51.920
1690 to 1694.

00:34:52.000 --> 00:34:52.159
Okay.

00:34:52.400 --> 00:34:59.599
She performed in major productions along uh France's top talents, appearing in multiple shows a week.

00:34:59.840 --> 00:35:07.840
She could sing um the bright high parts written for heroines, but at the time went on as time went on, she gravitated to roles.

00:35:08.320 --> 00:35:08.880
The lower parts?

00:35:09.039 --> 00:35:09.280
Exactly.

00:35:09.440 --> 00:35:09.920
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:35:10.159 --> 00:35:10.400
Exactly.

00:35:10.639 --> 00:35:11.039
Makes sense.

00:35:11.199 --> 00:35:14.880
She portrayed sorceresses, queens, and gods.

00:35:15.199 --> 00:35:15.760
Nice.

00:35:16.159 --> 00:35:21.679
So naturally, Julie's tumultuous personal life did not calm down.

00:35:22.000 --> 00:35:22.559
Of course not.

00:35:22.639 --> 00:35:23.280
Why would it?

00:35:23.599 --> 00:35:30.800
There's no way you, if you were to tell me she settled down and had a nice family, I would have said bullshit.

00:35:30.960 --> 00:35:31.440
Yeah.

00:35:31.760 --> 00:35:36.800
She was unapologetically bisexual, enjoying love affairs with men and women.

00:35:37.039 --> 00:35:37.280
Yes.

00:35:37.440 --> 00:35:39.920
And she openly wore men's clothing in public.

00:35:40.079 --> 00:35:40.400
Yeah.

00:35:40.559 --> 00:35:43.199
So this was technically illegal.

00:35:44.800 --> 00:35:50.400
Yeah, an old law required women to have permission to cross-dress, but Julie got away with it.

00:35:50.719 --> 00:35:53.280
Well, she got pardoned by the goddamn king.

00:35:53.840 --> 00:35:56.320
She's probably like, fuck off, man.

00:35:56.800 --> 00:36:00.559
And she continued to duel despite the king's band.

00:36:00.880 --> 00:36:07.199
I don't think you should mess with the king who pardoned you by participating in duels, but Okay.

00:36:07.440 --> 00:36:16.320
Now, with that being said, there's a lot of people in this world, even today, that do shit they should not do.

00:36:17.280 --> 00:36:17.920
Am I wrong?

00:36:18.320 --> 00:36:19.599
Yeah, I speed.

00:36:20.880 --> 00:36:25.679
I mean, I didn't know this was a roast of Kate all of a sudden, but okay.

00:36:26.079 --> 00:36:29.039
I wasn't referring to your speeding.

00:36:29.760 --> 00:36:33.519
I'm just saying, in general, you're a terrible speeder.

00:36:33.840 --> 00:36:34.480
Um, no.

00:36:34.800 --> 00:36:40.800
Um in general, it's just like people do a lot of shit they shouldn't be fucking doing, but they do it.

00:36:41.039 --> 00:36:41.360
Yep.

00:36:41.599 --> 00:36:42.400
That's all I'm saying.

00:36:42.559 --> 00:36:44.559
So another well-known story.

00:36:44.800 --> 00:36:50.880
One evening around 1695, Julie attended a royal ball at the Palace of Versailles.

00:36:51.039 --> 00:36:52.159
Oh, fancy, fancy.

00:36:52.559 --> 00:36:56.320
Dressed in a stunning suit of midnight blue velvet.

00:36:56.559 --> 00:36:57.440
I love blue velvet.

00:36:57.519 --> 00:36:58.639
Is it was it crushed?

00:36:59.119 --> 00:37:02.719
It probably was because she was looking pretty cavalier.

00:37:02.880 --> 00:37:04.559
Because now I'm just thinking of Austin Powers.

00:37:04.639 --> 00:37:04.960
Yeah.

00:37:05.199 --> 00:37:12.960
So she caused a stir by boldly dancing with and kissing a young noblewoman on the dance floor in front of everyone.

00:37:13.280 --> 00:37:14.159
She didn't care.

00:37:14.400 --> 00:37:19.360
The three suitors who had been vying for this lady's attention were hairy of.

00:37:19.599 --> 00:37:23.440
Well, yeah, because like, wait, I wanted to stick my sausage in you.

00:37:23.599 --> 00:37:24.800
Now you're kissing women.

00:37:24.960 --> 00:37:25.679
What the fuck?

00:37:25.920 --> 00:37:30.320
So realizing you give me that look, but that's exactly what they wanted.

00:37:30.639 --> 00:37:37.280
So realizing that this gentleman was actually a woman, their pride doubly wounded.

00:37:37.440 --> 00:37:39.920
Yes, they challenged Julie on the spot.

00:37:40.320 --> 00:37:42.079
Oh, to a duel a duel?

00:37:42.400 --> 00:37:44.400
Three duels at once.

00:37:44.960 --> 00:37:46.000
She's like.

00:37:47.840 --> 00:37:48.400
Interesting.

00:37:48.639 --> 00:37:51.440
So it was illegal to duel at a king's ball.

00:37:51.679 --> 00:37:54.000
It was illegal to duel anywhere.

00:37:54.480 --> 00:37:55.679
But Julie didn't care.

00:37:55.920 --> 00:37:56.559
Of course not.

00:37:56.800 --> 00:37:59.199
Julie faced all three men in succession.

00:37:59.280 --> 00:38:02.079
She fought So she just had to like, all right, who's going first?

00:38:02.239 --> 00:38:02.400
Yeah.

00:38:02.639 --> 00:38:03.599
Is that what it was basically?

00:38:03.760 --> 00:38:03.920
Yeah.

00:38:04.000 --> 00:38:04.159
Okay.

00:38:04.400 --> 00:38:08.320
She fought each duel back to back and defeated them all one by one.

00:38:09.119 --> 00:38:10.880
And this is all with swords?

00:38:11.360 --> 00:38:11.599
Yeah.

00:38:11.840 --> 00:38:12.880
Duels with swords?

00:38:13.039 --> 00:38:13.280
Yeah.

00:38:13.440 --> 00:38:13.679
Okay.

00:38:13.920 --> 00:38:21.039
So legend had has it that she wounded each man, uh, probably not mortally, but just enough to humiliate them.

00:38:21.440 --> 00:38:24.320
Enough to be like, I won, you suck.

00:38:24.800 --> 00:38:25.920
On to the next.

00:38:26.159 --> 00:38:36.159
Um, then she calmly strolled back into the ballroom in her masculine attire and remarked, any other gentleman care to object?

00:38:37.199 --> 00:38:39.199
And then she vanished into the night.

00:38:40.079 --> 00:38:52.559
Louis XIV, however, was not amused that dueling had occurred under his roof, and by next morning Julie had to flee Paris to avoid the king's justice for the public breach of peace, even though he already pardoned her.

00:38:52.639 --> 00:38:56.559
Like, why are you why are you What did her father think of this?

00:38:56.800 --> 00:38:58.400
Biting the man who feeds you.

00:38:58.719 --> 00:39:00.719
I don't biting the hand that feeds you?

00:39:00.960 --> 00:39:01.519
That's the one.

00:39:01.679 --> 00:39:02.320
Yeah.

00:39:02.800 --> 00:39:05.599
Biting the man that feeds you.

00:39:05.840 --> 00:39:08.639
So you don't like it, do you?

00:39:08.800 --> 00:39:09.280
I can't do it.

00:39:09.519 --> 00:39:09.920
That's fine.

00:39:10.000 --> 00:39:11.440
Then then stop.

00:39:11.599 --> 00:39:12.960
You have a water right there, you know.

00:39:13.360 --> 00:39:14.719
Cleanse your palate, maybe.

00:39:15.679 --> 00:39:18.079
So off Julie went again.

00:39:18.400 --> 00:39:20.400
She made her way to Brussels.

00:39:20.800 --> 00:39:21.599
Sprouts.

00:39:22.239 --> 00:39:25.519
This was a common destination for exiled French nobles and misses.

00:39:25.840 --> 00:39:26.400
Was it really?

00:39:26.559 --> 00:39:26.880
Mm-hmm.

00:39:27.039 --> 00:39:27.599
I didn't know that.

00:39:27.840 --> 00:39:32.639
In late 1697, her first order of business was to get on the stage.

00:39:33.280 --> 00:39:34.960
Of course, because she loved it, apparently.

00:39:35.199 --> 00:39:40.079
She joined the local opera company and resumed performing almost immediately.

00:39:40.320 --> 00:39:45.840
Brussels high society, including the Elector of Bavaria, Maximilian II Emmanuel.

00:39:46.079 --> 00:39:53.039
I love that name, Maximilian, who governed those lands, soon found themselves equally captivated and terrorized by Julie.

00:39:53.199 --> 00:39:53.440
Yes.

00:39:53.599 --> 00:39:57.599
And it wasn't long before the elector himself took Julie as his mistress.

00:39:57.840 --> 00:39:58.800
Oh, for fuck's sake.

00:39:59.119 --> 00:40:03.280
But it was short-lived because he thought that she was way too unpredictable.

00:40:03.519 --> 00:40:19.599
So eventually, because she was the elector offered Julie the equivalent of a severance package and stopped to stop causing trouble at his court, and she was deeply offended and threw a heavy purse of coin at the elector's feet and stormed out.

00:40:20.079 --> 00:40:22.320
And then came back for the purse and then left again.

00:40:22.719 --> 00:40:23.199
Anyways.

00:40:23.519 --> 00:40:28.880
During her stay in Brussels, Julie couldn't resist injecting drama into her performances either.

00:40:29.119 --> 00:40:29.440
Okay.

00:40:29.920 --> 00:40:35.840
In one opera, she had a scene where her character was to unalive herself on stage.

00:40:36.159 --> 00:40:38.960
Oh dear, the old S-word.

00:40:39.280 --> 00:40:43.840
Most singers would mind the act with a dull prop, but not Julie.

00:40:44.079 --> 00:40:45.280
She wanted to really do it.

00:40:45.519 --> 00:40:49.119
Yeah, she grabbed a real dagger and stabbed herself on stage.

00:40:49.360 --> 00:40:50.880
What a fucking idiot.

00:40:51.119 --> 00:40:51.519
Yeah.

00:40:51.760 --> 00:40:52.880
It was superficial.

00:40:53.119 --> 00:40:54.239
That's not the point, though.

00:40:54.719 --> 00:40:56.159
The shock value was high.

00:40:56.400 --> 00:41:02.800
I'm sure it wasn't like, oh my god, I was at this performance last night, and this chick actually fucking stabbed herself.

00:41:03.119 --> 00:41:06.559
But amongst it all, her singing remained top-notch.

00:41:06.800 --> 00:41:07.280
Of course.

00:41:07.440 --> 00:41:12.559
And by 1698, Paris was somehow ready to welcome back Julie.

00:41:12.800 --> 00:41:13.760
Jesus Christ.

00:41:14.000 --> 00:41:14.880
Ah yeah.

00:41:15.119 --> 00:41:18.559
So this time, um Another pardon?

00:41:18.880 --> 00:41:28.639
Philip, the Duke of Orleans, which is the king's brother, is said to have interceded on her behalf for a second royal pardon.

00:41:29.840 --> 00:41:31.199
Did she blow him or something?

00:41:31.280 --> 00:41:32.559
I mean, like, what the fuck?

00:41:32.800 --> 00:41:36.559
It helped that Louis XIV had a soft spot for talented performers.

00:41:36.800 --> 00:41:38.239
Yeah, he was about the arts.

00:41:38.480 --> 00:41:40.159
He had a fucking failing, dude.

00:41:40.320 --> 00:41:49.440
And maybe he chuckled at this his anti-dueling um law because it only said men were uh not allowed to duel.

00:41:49.599 --> 00:41:51.119
Not in the 80s.

00:41:51.599 --> 00:41:56.480
That's kind of like in the Lord of the Rings uh Return of the King.

00:41:56.800 --> 00:41:58.079
No man can do it.

00:41:58.159 --> 00:41:59.119
I am no man.

00:42:00.159 --> 00:42:00.400
Exactly.

00:42:00.800 --> 00:42:01.920
Stabs the Witch King.

00:42:02.000 --> 00:42:02.239
Yeah.

00:42:02.320 --> 00:42:02.480
Yeah.

00:42:02.719 --> 00:42:03.199
Exactly.

00:42:03.360 --> 00:42:06.719
So, true or not, the king granted Julie a second pardon.

00:42:06.960 --> 00:42:08.400
She's really gotta stop.

00:42:09.119 --> 00:42:14.239
I have no problem with her shenanigans, but don't escalate it to where you need a fucking pardon.

00:42:14.320 --> 00:42:14.639
Yeah.

00:42:14.880 --> 00:42:15.440
Seriously.

00:42:15.760 --> 00:42:22.719
So once back in Paris, she found out that the Paris opera needed a new star as the last Prima Madonna had retired.

00:42:22.880 --> 00:42:23.440
Oh dear.

00:42:23.760 --> 00:42:25.840
Julie stepped into the spotlight.

00:42:26.159 --> 00:42:33.360
So from 1698 to 1705, she reached like the pinnacle of her career.

00:42:33.519 --> 00:42:33.840
Okay.

00:42:34.079 --> 00:42:41.519
She was given roles in opera after opera, originating as many as 25 new roles written for her talents.

00:42:41.760 --> 00:42:42.400
Right.

00:42:42.880 --> 00:42:48.960
Um, she was she played fierce deities, um, sorceresses, and heroic queens.

00:42:49.199 --> 00:42:58.639
And even though she lived in men's clothing on the streets, she probably loved dressing up only women in the operas.

00:42:58.960 --> 00:42:59.280
Well, sure.

00:42:59.519 --> 00:43:02.960
I mean, that's also what she was and what they probably cured her towards.

00:43:03.039 --> 00:43:04.239
So yeah, it makes sense.

00:43:04.480 --> 00:43:08.000
So if you're a pre-Madonna when you retire, are you a post Madonna?

00:43:09.360 --> 00:43:09.760
Prima.

00:43:11.199 --> 00:43:13.679
It was a joke, but alright, thank you.

00:43:14.800 --> 00:43:16.239
Anyways, it's called prima.

00:43:16.719 --> 00:43:19.440
I know it is not pre-Madonna.

00:43:20.000 --> 00:43:20.880
Pre-Madonna.

00:43:21.280 --> 00:43:23.039
So is it prima Donna?

00:43:23.360 --> 00:43:24.000
Yes.

00:43:24.960 --> 00:43:26.159
Anyways.

00:43:26.559 --> 00:43:27.199
Wow.

00:43:28.159 --> 00:43:31.760
You mean to derail the whole podcast with a pre-Madonna joke?

00:43:32.079 --> 00:43:36.880
Okay, so the Parisian Society couldn't get enough of Julie's exploits.

00:43:37.119 --> 00:43:37.360
Sure.

00:43:37.599 --> 00:43:40.480
People sang drinking songs about her in taverns.

00:43:40.639 --> 00:43:43.840
Um, she was fame and infamy rolled in one.

00:43:44.239 --> 00:43:48.800
And true to form, Julie's love life continued to be as eventful.

00:43:49.039 --> 00:43:55.679
She reignited with an old flame, Thivignard, the old singer who had helped her get into the opera years ago.

00:43:55.840 --> 00:43:56.480
Yeah.

00:43:56.800 --> 00:43:59.760
Their relationship was a little bit volatile.

00:44:00.400 --> 00:44:01.199
Volatile.

00:44:01.440 --> 00:44:02.079
Volatile?

00:44:02.239 --> 00:44:02.480
Yeah.

00:44:02.639 --> 00:44:03.199
There it is.

00:44:03.440 --> 00:44:10.960
On one occasion during a lover's quarrel on stage, Julie bit his ear so hard that it drew blood.

00:44:11.280 --> 00:44:12.719
Sounds like Mike Tyson.

00:44:12.880 --> 00:44:13.440
Yeah.

00:44:13.679 --> 00:44:18.320
The audience thought it was part of the performance and was none the wiser wiser.

00:44:19.119 --> 00:44:21.199
At least they were entertained.

00:44:21.519 --> 00:44:23.039
Are you not entertained?

00:44:23.360 --> 00:44:26.960
And he was not the only partner to feel her bite.

00:44:27.039 --> 00:44:31.039
She was known to literally bite when angry and overly excited.

00:44:32.719 --> 00:44:35.360
Okay, I can get the overly excited thing.

00:44:36.880 --> 00:44:43.519
But a lot of her colleagues started noticing that she was restless and she was in a kind of longing.

00:44:43.840 --> 00:44:44.800
She needed something.

00:44:45.360 --> 00:44:48.800
She drank, um, joked, brawled to fill the emptiness.

00:44:49.039 --> 00:44:49.280
Yes.

00:44:49.440 --> 00:44:53.039
But then around 1703, she found that true love.

00:44:53.440 --> 00:44:57.280
Finally, she she stopped her whorish ways.

00:44:57.599 --> 00:45:00.800
Madame Le Marquis de Florent.

00:45:01.119 --> 00:45:02.159
So she married a woman.

00:45:02.400 --> 00:45:04.079
Well, they probably didn't marry, but yeah.

00:45:04.559 --> 00:45:10.079
She was a high-born aristocrat woman, famed for one of the great beauties of France.

00:45:10.400 --> 00:45:10.719
Really?

00:45:10.960 --> 00:45:15.360
She was by reputation a decadent and promiscuous at times.

00:45:15.679 --> 00:45:20.960
Um, though um, notably she had no prior record of being with women.

00:45:22.480 --> 00:45:23.039
Somehow.

00:45:23.280 --> 00:45:23.679
Yeah.

00:45:23.920 --> 00:45:29.280
When she and Julie met, obviously they gossip Mills turned, no one knew exactly how they were introduced.

00:45:29.519 --> 00:45:29.920
Right.

00:45:30.159 --> 00:45:32.320
But Julie was in her late 20s.

00:45:32.480 --> 00:45:32.719
Okay.

00:45:32.880 --> 00:45:36.239
And Florence Florence was a little bit older.

00:45:36.480 --> 00:45:37.199
Oh, okay.

00:45:38.000 --> 00:45:42.480
They recognized each other as like kindred spirits of like rebellion.

00:45:42.719 --> 00:45:42.960
Sure.

00:45:43.119 --> 00:45:45.760
The two women fell deeply in love.

00:45:46.159 --> 00:45:49.599
And for once it wasn't like us, it was a slow burn.

00:45:49.679 --> 00:45:52.239
It was it wasn't it wasn't a lust, yeah.

00:45:52.639 --> 00:45:56.639
Let's bang it, bang a couple out and then be like, all right, on to the next thing.

00:45:56.880 --> 00:46:00.000
It was it was like oh she started to settle down.

00:46:00.239 --> 00:46:02.800
Oh, I have feelings for this person, the real feelings.

00:46:02.960 --> 00:46:03.360
So yeah.

00:46:03.679 --> 00:46:09.679
So Julie and the marquee lived together monog monogamously and relatively quiet for the next two years.

00:46:10.000 --> 00:46:11.519
Julie's longest relationship.

00:46:11.840 --> 00:46:12.559
Sounds that way.

00:46:12.719 --> 00:46:17.599
And during this period, um, there were no duels or scandals from Julie.

00:46:17.840 --> 00:46:18.239
Interesting.

00:46:18.480 --> 00:46:22.880
She had found a measure of peace and happiness, content to be with her beloved.

00:46:23.280 --> 00:46:23.599
Yes.

00:46:23.840 --> 00:46:32.960
They hosted refined gatherings at um the Florencec estate, and Julie even learned to behave in high society for her lady.

00:46:33.199 --> 00:46:38.480
So did she during this time also still dress as a male, more or less?

00:46:38.639 --> 00:46:39.119
I think so.

00:46:39.280 --> 00:46:41.440
I think she never stopped doing that.

00:46:41.920 --> 00:46:47.360
So she was again more of a tomboy, which is what we used to all call those people who did that.

00:46:47.519 --> 00:46:47.920
Yeah.

00:46:48.239 --> 00:46:55.440
Um, so it kind of created a balance between High Society Lady and herself, obviously.

00:46:55.679 --> 00:46:55.920
Yeah.

00:46:56.079 --> 00:46:56.400
Okay.

00:46:57.119 --> 00:47:00.400
So um during this time, Julie did not abandon the stage.

00:47:00.719 --> 00:47:01.039
Of course.

00:47:01.199 --> 00:47:05.039
In May 1705, um, she gave her final opera appearance.

00:47:05.280 --> 00:47:05.599
Oh.

00:47:06.639 --> 00:47:10.400
Her heart was more on her new relationship, yeah.

00:47:10.559 --> 00:47:10.719
Yes.

00:47:10.960 --> 00:47:11.679
Than anything else.

00:47:11.920 --> 00:47:12.320
Sure.

00:47:12.639 --> 00:47:18.800
But later that summer, Madame de Madame de Florentac fell ill with a sudden fever.

00:47:19.119 --> 00:47:20.320
Oh fuck, really?

00:47:21.119 --> 00:47:24.800
So she finally finds love and she gets it ripped away.

00:47:25.119 --> 00:47:26.960
Two days of sickness.

00:47:27.360 --> 00:47:28.000
That's it.

00:47:28.239 --> 00:47:29.039
Two days of sickness.

00:47:30.159 --> 00:47:30.559
She died.

00:47:30.880 --> 00:47:32.079
Holy fuck.

00:47:32.320 --> 00:47:33.280
That is sad.

00:47:33.440 --> 00:47:33.920
Yeah.

00:47:34.159 --> 00:47:36.320
I've I've I mean, obviously, I feel bad.

00:47:36.480 --> 00:47:37.599
What I'm sorry, what's her name?

00:47:37.760 --> 00:47:38.559
The one who died.

00:47:38.960 --> 00:47:39.760
Madame, what?

00:47:40.079 --> 00:47:40.639
Florence.

00:47:41.360 --> 00:47:41.519
Okay.

00:47:41.840 --> 00:47:43.679
It's very I'm gonna go with Madame.

00:47:43.840 --> 00:47:44.400
Madame.

00:47:44.639 --> 00:47:50.400
Anyways, it's sad that Madame obviously died and rather fucking quickly.

00:47:50.639 --> 00:47:57.920
But Julie finally finds, like, oh, that I can settle down with this person, even though it's illegal technically.

00:47:58.079 --> 00:48:02.239
I mean, she's married still, probably officially.

00:48:02.880 --> 00:48:08.400
And she's but it sounded like it was a good time for her, and then rip it away.

00:48:09.039 --> 00:48:10.960
And of course, Julie's heart was broken.

00:48:11.199 --> 00:48:14.159
Well, yeah, I mean, I don't blame her.

00:48:14.480 --> 00:48:19.920
So following her death, Julie DeBigny walked away from the opera and public life forever.

00:48:20.239 --> 00:48:21.199
Oh, okay.

00:48:21.440 --> 00:48:28.559
We're not quite sure what happened to her afterwards, like whether she went back to her strange husband or what happened.

00:48:28.880 --> 00:48:29.519
Right, right, right.

00:48:29.679 --> 00:48:35.360
Um, other documents say that she might have gone back to the convent, which seems a little weird.

00:48:35.519 --> 00:48:36.960
I I I doubt that.

00:48:37.280 --> 00:48:38.400
I'm not saying it's wrong.

00:48:38.559 --> 00:48:39.920
I'm saying I highly doubt that.

00:48:40.079 --> 00:48:40.320
Yeah.

00:48:40.480 --> 00:48:46.960
So um Julie Dubigny died in 1707 at age 33.

00:48:47.199 --> 00:48:48.960
Yeah, she was very young then.

00:48:49.280 --> 00:48:51.360
The cause of her death is unrecorded.

00:48:51.679 --> 00:48:51.920
Okay.

00:48:52.079 --> 00:48:53.440
I wonder how she died then.

00:48:53.519 --> 00:48:55.039
I just I'm just curious.

00:48:55.440 --> 00:49:00.320
Wouldn't you like to know who wouldn't it be interesting to go, okay, back in my time machine?

00:49:00.480 --> 00:49:01.360
Yeah, go back.

00:49:01.519 --> 00:49:06.000
We're gonna go visit a tavern real quick, yeah, have a couple pints, and then like, let's see how she died.

00:49:06.079 --> 00:49:11.280
Yeah, I would just be curious to know her actual reason for dying.

00:49:11.440 --> 00:49:11.760
Yeah.

00:49:12.000 --> 00:49:16.559
Because 33, even then, is pretty fucking young.

00:49:16.719 --> 00:49:16.960
Yeah.

00:49:17.199 --> 00:49:18.719
So wow, okay.

00:49:19.039 --> 00:49:25.199
So over the centuries, Julie's um life and her story have been embellished.

00:49:25.519 --> 00:49:25.840
Of course.

00:49:26.000 --> 00:49:28.079
Yes, so they always are, especially back then.

00:49:28.320 --> 00:49:35.840
Yeah, so there were at least three had died um by her sword in documented duels.

00:49:36.079 --> 00:49:36.480
Yes.

00:49:36.639 --> 00:49:38.880
Um, but others say that she's killed ten.

00:49:39.360 --> 00:49:39.760
Not sure.

00:49:40.079 --> 00:49:40.480
Either way.

00:49:40.639 --> 00:49:42.079
Did she burn down the whole convent?

00:49:42.159 --> 00:49:42.400
No.

00:49:42.559 --> 00:49:44.400
Pretty sure she only burned down like a part of it.

00:49:46.559 --> 00:49:50.239
Was she the first woman to wear immense clothing?

00:49:50.559 --> 00:49:50.800
No.

00:49:51.360 --> 00:49:51.920
Fuck no.

00:49:52.159 --> 00:49:52.719
Yes.

00:49:53.199 --> 00:50:07.119
But for some, she was this like scandalous villainess, and then for others, she was this romantic icon of freedom and not being heroine heroine, and no, no one is gonna judge me who for who I want to be.

00:50:07.199 --> 00:50:13.119
And no, she was she wanted to be her, and that's who she was, and people applauded it, which is great.

00:50:13.360 --> 00:50:14.480
Be you, yeah.

00:50:14.719 --> 00:50:18.400
Um, it's just sad, so fucking young.

00:50:18.480 --> 00:50:29.119
Yeah, and then she finally found the love of her life, and she got ripped away from her, and because it sounded like I mean, yeah, love of her life.

00:50:29.199 --> 00:50:32.159
It it it settled her down, kind of thing, you know.

00:50:32.320 --> 00:50:42.559
And the fact that she had, you know, it was two years you said they were together, and then got sick, she died, and then holy fuck, it's like what do I do now?

00:50:42.719 --> 00:50:44.239
And that's wild.

00:50:44.480 --> 00:50:49.519
It's just sad that she had such a short life, such a busy life.

00:50:49.760 --> 00:50:51.840
Oh my god, so bold if you if you will.

00:50:52.000 --> 00:50:55.119
Um busy might not be the right term, you know what I mean though.

00:50:55.280 --> 00:50:58.880
Yeah, active whatever you want to call it.

00:50:59.119 --> 00:51:00.320
Oh, Jesus Christ.

00:51:00.639 --> 00:51:01.360
Sorry.

00:51:01.599 --> 00:51:08.079
And um she finally found what she was looking for and then ripped away and then begin to die.

00:51:08.880 --> 00:51:09.360
Yeah.

00:51:10.239 --> 00:51:12.719
So that was the story of Julie Dubigny.

00:51:13.280 --> 00:51:14.079
That was interesting.

00:51:14.239 --> 00:51:16.320
I I never obviously heard of her.

00:51:16.480 --> 00:51:16.639
Yeah.

00:51:17.039 --> 00:51:19.840
Um rather enjoyed that story.

00:51:20.239 --> 00:51:20.480
Good.

00:51:20.960 --> 00:51:24.239
Um I always you know, that's my time frame.

00:51:24.480 --> 00:51:24.880
I like it.

00:51:25.280 --> 00:51:25.519
I know.

00:51:25.760 --> 00:51:26.480
I like that shit.

00:51:26.800 --> 00:51:27.039
Yeah.

00:51:27.360 --> 00:51:30.639
Um so I wish they weren't all French though, you know.

00:51:31.199 --> 00:51:33.199
It's hard for me.

00:51:34.159 --> 00:51:37.039
It's hard for your pronunciation.

00:51:37.280 --> 00:51:37.519
Yeah.

00:51:37.920 --> 00:51:38.159
Okay.

00:51:38.400 --> 00:51:44.159
Did you know that French fries were not the first coming from France?

00:51:44.719 --> 00:51:45.199
What?

00:51:46.079 --> 00:51:47.760
They were first fried in Greece.

00:51:48.239 --> 00:51:48.639
What?

00:51:49.280 --> 00:51:50.559
Why do they call them French fries?

00:51:51.440 --> 00:51:52.159
Terrible joke.

00:51:52.719 --> 00:51:54.000
Fried in Greece.

00:51:54.320 --> 00:51:54.480
No.

00:51:55.840 --> 00:51:58.159
See, here's the thing.

00:51:58.400 --> 00:52:04.639
Um, our are many, many, many, many, many followers.

00:52:06.880 --> 00:52:11.119
If I have to explain my jokes to Kate, it's not that funny.

00:52:11.440 --> 00:52:13.519
No, no, no, no, no, no, no.

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It means they were funny.

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It's just Kate.

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It's just Kate.

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Yep.

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Well.

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I suppose.

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All right, buffoons.

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