callmekitto:alexandraerin:silverilly:bookshop:mydaywithd:Julie D’Aubigny was a 17th-century bisexual
callmekitto:alexandraerin:silverilly:bookshop:mydaywithd:Julie D’Aubigny was a 17th-century bisexual French opera singer and fencing master who killed or wounded at least ten men in life-or-death duels, performed nightly shows on the biggest and most highly-respected opera stage in the world, and once took the Holy Orders just so that she could sneak into a convent and shag a nun.(via Feminism)bisexual opera singer who killed ten men and snuck into a convent to shag a nun.Just so y’all know, she later set that convent on fire so she and that nun could sneak out. And she seduced one of the men she’d dueled.Also, dueling was a serious crime during her life, but the king of France essentially overturned her conviction on the grounds that the relevant law specifically referred to men. how has there never been a million stories about this badass -- source link