Maupin, Mlle
(1673–1707)> SINGER
Maupin, Mlle (1673, Paris; 1707, Paris), singer, is remembered as the heroine of Théophile Gautier’s novel by the same name, and any account of her life reads more like a romance than a biography. Soon after Mlle Maupin’s marriage, her husband left her in Paris to shift for herself while he went off to the provinces to tend to his new position with the government. Interested in athletics, the young bride took fencing lessons with a certain M. Seranne, and it was not long before she was using…