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BNL.736.019
14[=21]-28 Oct 1736:21 (1704)
London, August 21. Another woman had been there [in Paris
to petition the King] a week before her [another woman from
Compeigne who'd served 4 years as a grenadier in Bourbon's
Regiment of Foot, had honourable discharge and was
petitioning for gratuity from the court], but in contrary
circumstances. She was reckoned one of the best fidlers in
Paris, & came to Court to get admitted into his Majesty's
Band of Musick, and knowing the female habit wou'd be a bar
to her pretensions, she had assumed the appearance of a man,
and proposed to wear the habit for life: But his Majesty
gave her twenty louis d'ors, and dismissed her.
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