![]() ![]() Based on an extraordinary true story, this is an original, dazzling and witty novel - a compelling portrait of an unforgettable woman. Yet Julie is destined to die alone in a convent at the age of 33. Her lovers include some of Europe's most powerful men and France's most beautiful women. Within another year, she has become a beloved star at the famed Paris Opera. ![]() ![]() tempestuous, swashbuckling and volatile, within two years she has run away with her fencing master, fallen in love with a nun and is hiding from the authorities, sentenced to be burnt at the stake. Versailles, 1686: Julie d'Aubigny, a striking young girl taught to fence and fight in the court of the Sun King, is taken as mistress by the King's Master of Horse. A sparkling, witty and compelling novel based on the tragic rise and fall of the beautiful seventeenth century swordswoman and opera singer, Julie d'Aubigny (also known as La Maupin), a woman whose story is too remarkable to be true - and yet it is. ![]()
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