Well, I would prefer this movie:

[DetlefK]

http://www.collegehumor.com/post/7053288/the-tale-of-julie-daubigny-the-swashbuckling-bisexual-genderqueer-opera-singer-your-history-teacher-never-taught-you-about

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julie_d%27Aubigny

Julie d'Aubigny's father was a fencing teacher at the royal court in France 1673. She preferred boy's clothes and her father taught her to fence.

As a teenager she fled with her lover, a middle-aged fencing-master, after he had killed somebody in an illegal duel.

After some time as a traveling artist (singing and swordplay), Julie had a lesbian affair with a young woman. The woman's family sent her to a nun's convent.

Julie busted her lover out by entering the convent with the pretense of joining. Then she stole a corpse and set the convent on fire to fake her lover's death. She and her lesbian lover eventually broke up.

Next, she bumped into a nobleman who challenged her to a duel, thinking she was a man. She defeated him. He apologized. She nursed him back to health and they became lovers.

Next, she received a royal pardon for that whole burning-down-a-convent thing and became a very successful opera-singer.

After kissing a woman at a party, three men challenged her to duels. She dueled all three of them at the same time. And won.

Because dueling was illegal, she was forced to flee to Brussels.

There, she took another nobleman for lover, stabbed herself on-stage with a real dagger... the usual.

She eventually entered a solid lesbian relationship but her partner died soon after.



Heartbroken, Julie d'Aubigny died at the ripe old age of 33.

[hlthe2b]

1. geez, she just might have made the case for celibacy...

[Fla Dem]

2. She was a one woman dynamo.

The number of relationships, residences, careers, escapades etc in a short 33 year life span. Remarquable!!

What I find curious is there is no record of how she died and there is no grave,:

She retired from the opera in 1705 and took refuge in a convent, probably in Provence, where she is believed to have died in 1707 at the age of 33. She has no known grave.

I think the nuns murdered her.