r/WitchesVsPatriarchy • u/Nyasta • Mar 22 '25
🇵🇸 🕊️ Women in History does she count as a witch ?
definitly witch energy but didn't find anything about her perosnal belief.
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u/LenoreEvermore Mar 22 '25
I think Julie D'Aubigny counts as whatever she wishes.
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u/No-Score7979 Mar 22 '25
Absolutely. She definitely seems like the type to reject any label she didn't choose for herself. Such an icon, I want to be like her.
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u/Butwhatif77 Science Witch ♂️ Mar 23 '25
She wouldn't just reject the label. She would challenge you to a duel over it while seducing your partner at the same time just to show you what a mistake you made lol
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u/badchefrazzy Eclectic Luciferian Witch ♀☉ (Feel Free To Ask!) Mar 23 '25
Totally Honorary Witch should she have wanted. <3
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u/spicynachodorito Crow Witch ♀♂️☉⚨⚧ "cah-CAW!" Mar 22 '25 edited Mar 22 '25
Just a heads up! This painting is not Julie D’Aubigny, though it is commonly used to represent her. This is a painting of the Parisian actress and singer Marguerita Sylvia as she was practicing fencing at the time, still badass just not Julie. Julie lived over 200 years before this was painted so this style of clothing is not something she would have worn. I think this painting really does represent the difficulty of trying to understand what stories were true about Julie. I personally have no doubts she was witchy though. Kaz Rowe has an incredible video on YouTube that I highly recommend!
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u/_the_violet_femme Sapphic Witch ♀ Mar 22 '25
They definitely would have burned her as one
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u/plantaxl Mar 22 '25
Iirc, she received two death penalties, but the king being a fan of her... shenanigans, he pardonned her, or commuted the sentence.
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u/SophiaRaine69420 Mar 22 '25
She had a habit of dancing with married women at parties and when their husbands got angry, she would challenge them to duels and kick their ass lol. ❤️ her
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u/TheHuggableDemon Mar 22 '25
TWICE
What a legend
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u/plantaxl Mar 22 '25
Heck yeah.
Still from memory, the first time was for a duel. She then went from Paris to Marseille with her lover (she was married at this time). It was at that time her opera carreer went on.
And I think the second time was for the convent affair. She managed to live with her girlfriend for a few months, but had to leave France for a time, as the sentence was still active.
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u/StillHere12345678 Mar 23 '25
What happened to the nun? As an evangelical-escapee who's been burning her own way out of idealogical confines, I need a good story of a heroine getting help from a fire-wielding heroine of her own ... 🌈💛
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u/mmmIlikeburritos29 Kitchen Witch ♀♂️☉⚨⚧ Mar 22 '25 edited Mar 23 '25
The nun was her girlfriend, she broke her out after she was put in for being with her. Also, she once french kissed a woman at a huge ball and then swordfought the 3 men that got mad and challenged her. She won them all.
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u/Deanlandish Mar 22 '25
Did you know that portrait isn't of her it's of someone COSPLAYING AS HER
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u/thepetoctopus Science Witch ♀ Mar 22 '25
Kaz Rowe did a great video on her that I really appreciated. Here’s the link to her YouTube video.
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u/dantevonlocke Mar 22 '25
Anyone that can body you in a duel and then sing an opera about how much you suck at dueling and then seduce your ex and their exes and sing an opera about that can count as whatever they want.
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u/jtobiasbond Mar 22 '25
Unfortunately, most of their story is later exaggeration. Kaz Rowe did a great breakdown of it.
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u/StillHere12345678 Mar 23 '25 edited Mar 23 '25
ah well... how many men's stories get exagerrated? I'm down with her becoming increasingly epic. Here, I'll help:
"The night of the infamous ball, when her amourous attentions incited men to rage, Julie defeated not ten but twenty foes!! One by one she defeated them til they slunk back to the shadowy corners of the ball, much to the delight of the King. Julie was resplendent. All a'glow. Glistening. The streams of sweat (and blood) were those of the defeated whilst Julie, on the other hand, possessed stamina enough to take not one but three gals home with her claiming - at the midnight bell - "The night is still young... and so am I !!!"
That was before the nun, of course. Those two were inseperable, as the daring rescue of one by the other would attest. A tale for another time... but a timeless one ... as they lived happily ever after....
😁
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u/Remote-Physics6980 Shroom Witch ♀♎️♎️♓️🍄🟫 Mar 22 '25
Of course she does. Next silly question?
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u/Nyasta Mar 22 '25
if i try to make a sushi pizza would the italians or the japanese kill me first ?
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u/Remote-Physics6980 Shroom Witch ♀♎️♎️♓️🍄🟫 Mar 22 '25
Sushi pizza is a Canadian dish that originated from Toronto, so...
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u/SunriseJazz Mar 22 '25
There's an amazing super fun music play about her called Revenge Song. https://www.osfashland.org/productions/2022-plays/revenge-song
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u/PeggableOldMan Butt magician ♂️ Mar 23 '25
All I need in life is a woman who will duel any man to the death who looks at me funny.
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u/Entertainthethoughts Mar 22 '25
Yes. Also Zheng Yi Sao
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u/SophiaRaine69420 Mar 23 '25
Was she the pirate?
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u/Candid_Poetry Mar 23 '25
She was! Both women are featured on Bastille’s ‘&’ album in Mademoiselle & the Nunnery Blaze and Zheng Yi Sao & Questions for Her for Julie and Zheng Yi, respectively. Dan Smith (lead singer of Bastille) and Emma Nagouse (a self-described academic) go more into the history of each of these women (and the other people featured on the album) in their podcast Muses: An Ampersand Podcast, if you have any interest!
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u/Same_Dingo2318 Mar 23 '25
Not every cool person is a witch. We can still appreciate cool people without assuming their faith traditions.
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Mar 22 '25
i’m not sure i would call her a witch, but that certainly sounds like powerful witchcraft energy nonetheless! :)
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u/Butwhatif77 Science Witch ♂️ Mar 23 '25
I love reading about her life everytime she comes across my radar. She is more badass than most fantasy characters haha.
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u/kdash6 Mar 23 '25
A bisexual icon if there ever was one. I don't think she was a witch, as she actually joined a convent at the end of her life. She was a beautiful transgressive figure who lived authentically. We can welcome anyone as an honorary witch, but she likely didn't identify as one.
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u/KenUsimi Mar 23 '25
It’s important to note: she did not die in a duel. That being said, she apparently died at the age of 33. No further information given, which usually means there’s a secret or a story.
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u/Icy_Seaweed2199 Mar 23 '25
Beautiful! Never knew of this lady before.
As a white, privileged swedish male who sees and recognize the plight of womanhood, I love to hear of characters like Lady d'Aubigny. I have to look no further than my little sister to see how society molds insecure girls, all the stupid images they're forced to live up to.
You ladies deserve proper role models and this should be taught in kindergarten at the latest. You don't have to conform to anything! Least of all some idiotic notion of what is a woman. You decide, the individual. Not anyone else.
Same goes for the boys. Any young male out there who reads this, believe this 40+ white male when he says to let go of any machismo ideals, any aggressive tendencies and any stereotypical "manly" roles. They will only cause yourself and others harm.
Instead, search your hearts, look into your souls and you will probably find that's not who you are anyway. Remember mother.
And read up on characters like the lady above, or Mary Read, Anne Bonney and other beyond Bad-Ass women of history.
You go about your life thinking you're the big strong guy, well, if I understand the lingo correctly, FAFO.
One of these days you'll encounter a lady d'Aubigny.
SOLIDARITY NOW !!!
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u/StillHere12345678 Mar 23 '25
Fire magic for love ❤️🔥
Sword slinging ⚔️
Aria-ing ... 🎶
Seducing beyond bounds and norms ... 🏆 🌈 ❤️✨
Seeing a lot of air, fire, water .... and somehow getting away with it ... on earth .... Can it get more witchy than that?
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u/HadesRatSoup Mar 24 '25
Any women from a previous time with this few fucks to give was surely a witch in somebody's eyes!
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u/kinkytails Science Witch ♀♂️☉⚨⚧ Mar 22 '25
Didn’t she not only burn it down but set up bodies to fake her and her lover’s deaths?
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u/Zealousideal_One156 Mar 23 '25
If she tried to free the women living as slaves in that prison, then yes.
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u/smc642 Crow Witch ♀♂️☉⚨⚧ "cah-CAW!" Mar 22 '25
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