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TIL about Julie d'Aubigny, a 17th century sword-fighting, bisexual opera singer who lived a colorful & storied life. She once wounded a man in a duel & after nursing him back to health took him as a lover. Another time she set a fire in a convent to fake the death of a nun who she had an affair with

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