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Welcome to Aaron Menke's Cabinet of Curiosity's, a production of IHeart Radio and grim and mild.

Our world is full of the unexplainable.

And if history is an open book, all of these amazing tales are right there on display, just waiting for us to explore.

Welcome to the Cabinet of Curiosities.

Everyone loves a little celebrity gossip, and the 17th century French court was no different.

At the time, the talk of Paris was an opera singer named Julie Dobini.

What was so scandalous about Julie, you might ask?

Well, in all honesty, you'd have an easier time answering what wasn't scandalous,

and far from being over in 15 minutes, Julie's fame is something that people

are still talking about today. She was born around 1670 in Paris and was the daughter of a master

swordsman. Her father taught her about all his favorite passions, drinking, gambling, and of course,

fencing. Rounding out her schooling was a formal education

he insisted that she received, despite that type of learning being reserved for boys at the time.

As Julie grew into a teenager, it became clear that she wasn't content to act like a lady

of the court. She began dressing in men's clothes, challenging men to duels, and quickly grew comfortable

being on the wrong side of the law.

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