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The beautiful Marquise de Banneville meets a handsome marquis, and they fall in love. But the young woman is actually a young man (brought up as a girl and completely in the dark about her - or his - true sex), while the marquis is actually a young woman who likes to cross-dress. Will they live happily ever after? In the introduction, Joan DeJean presents the fascinating puzzle of authorship of this lighthearted gender-bending tale written in the late seventeenth century in France.Charles Perrault is the author of 'Fre-Histoire de La Marquise-Ma (Texts and Translations) (French Edition)', published 2004 under ISBN 9780873529310 and ISBN 0873529316.
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