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SCG-C.737.002
1-8 Jan 1737:31 (154)
[Compeigne, France] Another woman had been there a week
before her, [to present a petition of the French King] but
it contrary circumstances: She was reckon'd the best fidler
in Paris, came to court to get admitted into his Majesty's
Band of Musick: and knowing the female habit would be a bar
to her ambition, 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 sent her packing.
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