La Préface de Mademoiselle de Maupin by Théophile Gautier

On arrival in Marseille, she joined the opera company run by Gaultier de Marseilles (1642–1696), singing under her maiden name. While travelling and performing in these impromptu shows, La Maupin dressed in men's clothing but did not attempt to pass as male. On the road south, d'Aubigny and Sérannes made a living by giving fencing exhibitions and singing in taverns and at local fairs. When Lieutenant-General of Police Gabriel Nicolas de la Reynie tried to apprehend Sérannes for killing a man in an illegal duel, the pair fled the city to Marseille. Youth Īlso around 1687, d'Aubigny became involved with an assistant fencing master named Séranne. Soon after the wedding, her husband received an administrative position in the south of France, but the Count kept her in Paris for his own purposes. That year, in 1687, the Count d'Armagnac arranged for her to marry the Sieur de Maupin of Saint-Germain-en-Laye, and she became Madame de Maupin (or simply 'La Maupin' per French custom). īy the age of 14, she became Louis de Lorraine's mistress. Her father, who trained the court pages, took care of her education teaching her academic subjects of the type given to boys but also trained her in fencing in which she gained competence from the age of 12, competing successfully against men. Julie d'Aubigny was born in 1673 to Gaston d'Aubigny, a secretary to Louis de Lorraine-Guise, comte d'Armagnac, the Master of the Horse for King Louis XIV.

D'Aubigny's first partner was Louis de Lorraine, comte d'Armagnac.

La Préface de Mademoiselle de Maupin by Théophile Gautier