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Woman in battle dress

In 1809, at the age of eighteen, Henriette Faber enrolled herself in medical school in Paris -- and since medicine was a profession prohibited to women, she changed her name to Henri in order to matriculate. She would spend the next fifteen years practicing medicine and living as a man. Drafted to serve as a surgeon in Napoleon's army, Faber endured the horrors of the 1812 retreat across Russia. She later embarked to the Caribbean and set up a medical practice in a remote Cuban village, where she married Juana de León, an impoverished local. Three years into their marriage, de León turned Faber in to the authorities, demanding that the marriage be annulled. A sensational legal trial ensued, and Faber was stripped of her medical license, forced to dress as a woman, sentenced to prison, and ultimately sent into exile. She was last seen on a boat headed to New Orleans in 1827. In this, his last published work, Antonio Benítez Rojo takes the outline provided by historical events and weaves a richly detailed backdrop for Faber, who becomes a vivid and complex figure grappling with the strictures of her time. Woman in Battle Dress is a sweeping, ambitious epic, in which Henriette Faber tells the story of her life, a compelling, entertaining, and ultimately triumphant tale.

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  • "Biographie romancée d'Henriette Faber, née à Lausanne en 1791. Après avoir perdu son mari et ses enfants, elle décide de devenir médecin. Elle se travestit en homme pour faire ses études à Paris, devient chirurgien dans l'armée de Napoléon, participe à la campagne de Russie, est faite prisonnière par Wellington avant de s'établir en Espagne puis à Cuba où elle se marie à une femme."
  • "This novel, based on a true story, tells the life of a strong and independent Swiss woman who disguised herself as a man in order to study medicine in Paris, and became a surgeon with Napoleon's army. After the wars, still living as a man, she went to Cuba, where she practiced medicine and married a woman. When her disguise was discovered she was exiled to New Orleans. -- Esta novela, basada en una historia verdadera, cuenta la vida de una mujer suiza, fuerte y independiente, que se disfrazó como hombre para estudiar la medicina en París, y se hizo cirujano con el ejército de Napoleón. Después de las guerras, todavía viviendo como hombre, se fue a Cuba, donde practicaba la medicina y se casó con una mujer. Al ser descubierta, fue exiliada a New Orleans."
  • "In 1809, at the age of eighteen, Henriette Faber enrolled herself in medical school in Paris -- and since medicine was a profession prohibited to women, she changed her name to Henri in order to matriculate. She would spend the next fifteen years practicing medicine and living as a man. Drafted to serve as a surgeon in Napoleon's army, Faber endured the horrors of the 1812 retreat across Russia. She later embarked to the Caribbean and set up a medical practice in a remote Cuban village, where she married Juana de León, an impoverished local. Three years into their marriage, de León turned Faber in to the authorities, demanding that the marriage be annulled. A sensational legal trial ensued, and Faber was stripped of her medical license, forced to dress as a woman, sentenced to prison, and ultimately sent into exile. She was last seen on a boat headed to New Orleans in 1827. In this, his last published work, Antonio Benítez Rojo takes the outline provided by historical events and weaves a richly detailed backdrop for Faber, who becomes a vivid and complex figure grappling with the strictures of her time. Woman in Battle Dress is a sweeping, ambitious epic, in which Henriette Faber tells the story of her life, a compelling, entertaining, and ultimately triumphant tale."@en

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  • "Biographical fiction"
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  • "Tekstuitgave"
  • "Medical novels"
  • "Historical fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"

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  • "Mujer en traje de batalla"
  • "Mujer en traje de batalla"@es
  • "Femme en costume de bataille"
  • "Woman in battle dress"@en
  • "Woman in battle dress"
  • "Mujer en traje de batalla : Antonio Benítez Rojo"
  • "Femme en costume de bataille roman"
  • "Mulher em traje de guerra : romance"

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