Gisele d Estoc was the pseudonym of a nineteenth-century French woman writer and, it turns out, artist who, among other things, was accused of being a bomb-planting anarchist, the cross-dressing lover of writer Guy de Maupassant, and the fighter of at least one duel with another woman, inspiring Bayard s famous painting on the subject. The true identity of this enigmatic woman remained unknown and was even considered fictional until recently, when Melanie C. Hawthorne resurrected d Estoc s discarded story from the annals of forgotten history.
Finding the Woman Who Didn t...
Gisele d Estoc was the pseudonym of a nineteenth-century French woman writer and, it turns out, artist who, among other things, was accused of bein...
