Herculine Barbin

Eventually, the devoutly Catholic Barbin confessed to Jean-François-Anne Landriot, the Bishop of La Rochelle.

He asked Barbin's permission to break the confessional silence in order to send for a doctor to examine her.

She left her lover and her job, changed her name to Abel Barbin and was briefly mentioned in the press.

[3] In February 1868, the concierge of Barbin's house in rue de l'École-de-Médecine found her dead in her home.

in his book Question médico-légale de l'identité dans ses rapport avec les vices de conformation des organes sexuels, contenant les souvenirs et impressions d'un individu dont le sexe avait été méconnu ("Forensics of Identity Involving Deformities of the Sexual Organs, along with the Memoirs and Impressions of an Individual whose Sex was Misidentified") (Paris: J.-B.

Michel Foucault discovered the memoirs in the 1970s while conducting research at the French Department of Public Hygiene.

He had the journals republished as Herculine Barbin: Being the Recently Discovered Memoirs of a Nineteenth-century French Hermaphrodite.

In his edition, Foucault also included a set of medical reports, legal documents, and newspaper articles, as well as a short story adaptation by Oscar Panizza.

[5] Barbin appears as a character in the play A Mouthful of Birds by Caryl Churchill and David Lan.

In 2014, a manuscript entitled Dear Herculine by Aaron Apps won the 2014 Sawtooth Poetry Prize from Ahsahta Press.

[ca]" by composer Raquel García-Tomás, inspired by the memoirs of Herculine Barbin, premiered at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona.