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emancipatory) wrote2032-08-16 09:04 pm
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Name Giovannina Roux
Age Mid-forties
Born 08.04.1882
Sexuality Queer Status Widow PB Lucy Davis
Sexuality Queer Status Widow PB Lucy Davis
About.
Long before Mussolini seized power in Italy, Giovannina (then Salierno) seized power of her future.
She had met a French man by the name of Georges Roux, a politician and linguist, fluent in Italian as well as his native tongue, 25 years her senior, and he became her ticket out of her poor Naples background.
When she was 18, they married, gauging the winds of change blowing over Italy, and thus moving back to Paris, where Giovannina started a new life. She basked in her husband's influence, their marriage stormy and not always an enjoyable affair, so when Georges died 15 years later, still young, but not one second too late, Giovannina thought, perhaps that was the best thing he could've done for her.
His wealth was hers, then, and she worked hard to also maintain his political and business contacts in her circles.
As such, Giovannina became one of the most influential women in 1920's Paris - an influence she used to, discreetly, start her "girls' clubs", a community for women and others who morally didn't fit into regular society. The flappers, the lesbians, the cross-dressers and the other non-conforming genderqueers, as well as the trans girls. Her home became a house of freedom to these people.
In the way, it had finally become a house of freedom for herself, too.
She had met a French man by the name of Georges Roux, a politician and linguist, fluent in Italian as well as his native tongue, 25 years her senior, and he became her ticket out of her poor Naples background.
When she was 18, they married, gauging the winds of change blowing over Italy, and thus moving back to Paris, where Giovannina started a new life. She basked in her husband's influence, their marriage stormy and not always an enjoyable affair, so when Georges died 15 years later, still young, but not one second too late, Giovannina thought, perhaps that was the best thing he could've done for her.
His wealth was hers, then, and she worked hard to also maintain his political and business contacts in her circles.
As such, Giovannina became one of the most influential women in 1920's Paris - an influence she used to, discreetly, start her "girls' clubs", a community for women and others who morally didn't fit into regular society. The flappers, the lesbians, the cross-dressers and the other non-conforming genderqueers, as well as the trans girls. Her home became a house of freedom to these people.
In the way, it had finally become a house of freedom for herself, too.
First impressions.
Visual. Tall, curvy, long black hair, dark eyes, very Italian air.
Fashion. Best of 1920's dress.
Demeanor. Gestures a lot when she talks, speaks fast, laughs raucously.
Aural. Heavy Italian accent.
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