b"She's an icon, she's a legend, and she\\xa0is the moment: today\\u2019s subject caused such a scandal in her life that even its fictionalized depiction in a novel was banned by the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice. The Mozart of bisexual drama, sword-fighting crossdressing opera singer Julie D'Aubigny burned through a dizzying series of\\xa0lives, loves, husbands, mistresses, swordfights, operatic performances, lovers, and successes at the Paris Opera before dying in a convent in her early 30s.\\xa0\\nPre-order our book in paperback for a free E-book!\\nSOURCES\\n\\u201cBiographical Sketches and Anecdotes: Julie D\\u2019Aubigny.\\u201d In The Dublin University Magazine, 408\\u201310. William Curry, Jun., and Company, 1854.\\nBlackmer, Corrine, and Patricia Juliana Smith, eds. En Travesti: Women, Gender Subversion, Opera. 0 edition. New York: Columbia University Press, 1995.\\nCarlton, Genevieve. \\u201cMeet The Sword-Fighting, Bisexual Opera Singer Who Broke All The Rules In 17th-Century France.\\u201d All That\\u2019s Interesting, March 3, 2022. https://allthatsinteresting.com/julie-daubigny.\\nCuttle, Jade. \\u201cThe Story of Julie d\\u2019Aubigny: The French Opera-Singing Sword Fighter.\\u201d Culture Trip, August 8, 2018. https://theculturetrip.com/france/articles/the-story-of-julie-daubigny-the-french-opera-singing-sword-fighter/.\\nGautier, Theophile. Mademoiselle de Maupin. Translated by Patricia Duncker. Revised edition. Cambridge, London: Penguin Classics, 2005.\\nGiovetti, Olivia. \\u201cWomen In Love.\\u201d VAN Magazine, April 9, 2020. https://van-magazine.com/mag/women-in-love/.\\nHarris, Joseph. Hidden Agendas: Cross-Dressing in 17th-Century France. T\\xfcbingen: Narr Dr. Gunter, 2011.\\nHoddinott, Fiona Zublin, Meradith. \\u201cThe Badass Rogue Who Cross-Dressed and Dueled Her Way to Infamy.\\u201d OZY(blog), January 27, 2020. http://www.ozy.com/true-and-stories/the-badass-rogue-who-cross-dressed-and-dueled-her-way-to-infamy/76908.\\nInterlude. \\u201cThe Daring Criminal Swordswoman Who Became an Opera Star!\\u201d Interlude (blog), October 28, 2016. https://interlude.hk/lesbian-diva-swordswoman-julie-daubigny-aka-mademoiselle-maupin/.\\nKelly Gardiner. \\u201cThe Real Life of Julie d\\u2019Aubigny,\\u201d May 11, 2014. https://kellygardiner.com/fiction/books/goddess/the-real-life-of-julie-daubigny/.\\nKoestenbaum, Wayne. Queen\\u2019s Throat: Opera, Homosexuality And The Mystery Of Desire. Reprint edition. London: Da Capo Press, 2001.\\n\\u201cMaupin, d\\u2019Aubigny (c. 1670\\u20131707) | Encyclopedia.Com.\\u201d Accessed January 9, 2023. https://www.encyclopedia.com/women/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/maupin-daubigny-c-1670-1707.\\nTucker, Holly. City of Light, City of Poison: Murder, Magic, and the First Police Chief of Paris. Reprint edition. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2018.\\nVitale, Alex S. The End of Policing. Updated edition. New York: Verso, 2021.\\nWestby, Alan. \\u201cJulie d\\u2019Aubigny: La Maupin and Early French Opera.\\u201d The Los Angeles Public Library, June 28, 2017. https://www.lapl.org/collections-resources/blogs/lapl/julie-daubigny-la-maupin-and-early-french-opera.\\nOur intro music is\\xa0Arpeggia Colorix\\xa0by Yann Terrien, downloaded from WFMU's Free Music Archive and distributed under a Creative Commons\\xa0Attribution-ShareAlike License. Our outro music is by DJ\\xa0Michaeloswell Graphicsdesigner."