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Julie d'Aubigny (La Maupin), a 17th-century French swordswoman and opera singer, defeated three noblemen in duels at a court ball after kissing a woman. Her father, a fencing instructor at Louis XIV's court, had trained her from childhood to surpass adult men.
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