Théophile Gautier
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Pierre Jules Théophile Gautier was a French poet, dramatist, novelist, journalist, and art and literary critic.
Théophile Gautier photographed by Nadar
Portrait of Théophile Gautier by Théodore Chassériau (Musée du Louvre)
Gautier with Ernestina Grisi and their daughters Estelle and Judith. Photograph taken around 1857.
Gustave Boulanger, Théophile Gautier and Marie Favart in Roman costumes, 1861, a study for Boulanger's painting Répétition du "Joueur de flûte" et de "La femme de Diomède" chez le prince Napoléon
Julie d'Aubigny
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Julie d'Aubigny, better known as Mademoiselle Maupin or La Maupin, was a French opera singer. Little is known for certain about her life beyond her position as a soloist at the Paris Opera and some of
Théophile Gautier
…ever after. Mademoiselle de Maupin (1835) In September 1833, Gautier was solicited to write a historical romance based on the life of French opera star Mlle. Maupin, who was a first-rate swordswoman and often went about disguised as a man. Originally, the story was to be about the historical La Maupin, who set fire…
"Mademoiselle Maupin de l'Opéra". Anonymous print, c. 1700.
D'Aubigny's first partner was Louis de Lorraine, comte d'Armagnac.
The fictional Mademoiselle de Maupin, from Six Drawings Illustrating Théophile Gautier's Romance Mademoiselle de Maupin by Aubrey Beardsley, 1898