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Mademoiselle de Maupin: The Life and Afterlife of a 17th-Century Swashbuckler
Mademoiselle de Maupin: The Life and Afterlife of a 17th-Century Swashbuckler
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Length:
19 minutes
Released:
Mar 1, 2014
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
(Lucy) How did a swashbuckling seventeenth-century opera singer become the heroine of a nineteenth-century novel? What does this tell us about the performance and perception of gender in both eras? And did the mysterious Mademoiselle de Maupin really run away with a nun? This week’s episode of Footnoting History looks at all that... and dueling!
Released:
Mar 1, 2014
Format:
Podcast episode
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