He was her father's boss, and he was one of the great noblemen of France at the time, very very powerful man. On becoming a nobleman's mistress at the age of 13 So she must've felt apart, I think, for a great deal of her life. I started to think, how would that have been, to be a cross-dressing, sword-fighting opera singer in the 17th century - I mean, she would have felt incredibly alone for a lot of her life, and incredibly brave. It's called Goddess, and Gardiner tells NPR's Scott Simon that some people find it hard to believe that d'Aubigny was a real person, because her life was so remarkable, "but yes, she really did live." She was, according to history, exquisite in appearance, a graceful and superb fencer, a sublime singer, a swashbuckling duellist, and lover of men and women, famous and cloistered - and that's just the beginning.Īustralian young adult author Kelly Gardiner has written her first novel for grownups about a character who seems to leave no adult passion untested. You can run out of colorful adjectives trying to describe Julie d'Aubigny.
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