WOMAN’S LIFE IN GUISE OF MAN
Secret Kept For 50 Years
After living as a num for more than ■5O years, Jeanette Bosquanne, now aged -5(1. of .Moulins. France, has just been married to the only man who know her secret.
Just, before Jeanette was born her two-years-old brother was killed in an accident, says "The Sunday Chronicle.”
'l’he tragedy so preyed on the mind id' Jeanette's father that he swore that if the now baby was not a boy he would kill it.
Jeanette’s mother, fearing that the threat would be carried out, told her husband when Jeanette was born that the baby was a boy. So the girl was brought up as a sou.
Jeanette promised Ihat as long as her father lived she would keep lhe secret.
Six months ago. with lhe death ol her f.-ilher, Jennelle for Hie first lime lool; her place in lhe life of Ila- village as a woman.
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Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 264, 5 August 1939, Page 6 (Supplement)
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156WOMAN’S LIFE IN GUISE OF MAN Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 264, 5 August 1939, Page 6 (Supplement)
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