The Scandalous Life of Julie d'Aubigny

This woman literally set a convent on fire to rescue her girlfriend... Meet Julie d'Aubigny

- the most scandalous woman in 17th-century France. She was a celebrated opera singer at

the Paris Opera, but that was just her day job... By night, she was a master

duelist who dressed as a man and challenged anyone who insulted her. But everything changed

when she fell madly in love with a young woman... who had just become a nun.

So Julie faked her own death, joined the same convent as a novice, and planned their

escape. When the plan went wrong, she literally set the convent on fire

as a distraction and escaped with her lover! Plot twist - they broke up three months