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Story of the Marquise-Marquis de Banneville

Translated by Steven Rendall, With FranÃ§ois-TimolÃ©on de Choisy, By (author) Marie-Jeanne L'HÃ©ritier, By (author) Charles Perrault

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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 herâ€”or hisâ€”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. Was it FranÃ§ois-TimolÃ©on de Choisy, an abbot who was happiest in drag? Marie-Jeanne L'HÃ©ritier, an outspoken defender of women's writing of her day? Or Charles Perrault, L'HÃ©ritier's uncle and the famous author of such fairy tales as ""Sleeping Beauty""? DeJean argues that the tale was a collaboration of all three and discusses the permeable borderline between masculinity and femininity, transvestism, and toleranceâ€”then and now.