Augustus Baudouin
- Dec 6, 2025
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Updated: Dec 30, 2025
Teenager, Criminal
Born: Estimated 1843
Died: approx. January, 1860
[CONTENT WARNING: contains topics relating to suicide]
Transcription:
An extraordinary case of a girl concealing her sex for many years, has been brought to light in Peitiers, France. Augustine, alias Augustus Baudouin, a young person of 17, was known in the town and neighborhood as an active lad, and had been in place in respectable houses as "odd boy." This individual was lately tried for robbery, and while in prison, the authorities conceived some suspicions, and ascertained her to be a female. On being ask-ed what reason she had for wearing men's clothes, she said she had observed that men got their living easier than women; but she refused to give any information as to her birth and parentage. She was removed to the fe-male wards, but her repugnance to appear in women's attire among her fellow prisoners was so great, that she committed suicide by hang-ing herself on an iron bar with a pocket hand-kerchief.
From the Raftsman's Journal, Jan. 25, 1860. Courtesy of the Digital Transgender Archive.
Last updated: December 30th, 2025.
In the transcription, " she said she had observed that emn got their living easier than women" misspells men.
"hang-in herself" is also misspelled and drops the g at the end of hanging.