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During her travels abroad, Jane Dieulafoy preferred to dress in men's clothing and to wear her hair short, because it was otherwise difficult for a woman to travel freely in a Muslim country. She had also dressed as a man when she fought alongside Marcel Dieulafoy during the Franco-Prussian war and she kept dressing in men's clothing when she came back to France. This was against the law in France at the time, but when she returned from the Middle East she received special "permission de avertissement" from the prefect of police. Of her cross-dressing Dieulafoy wrote, "I only do this to save time. I buy ready-made suits and I can use the time saved this way to do more work". She includes many characters who cross-dress in her fiction, including her novels Volontaire and Frère Pélage
The Louvre Museum And The Looted Ancient Heritage Of Iran By Jane Devolafoy
During her travels abroad, Jane Dieulafoy preferred to dress in men's clothing and to wear her hair short, because it was otherwise difficult for a woman to travel freely in a Muslim country. She had also dressed as a man when she fought alongside Marcel Dieulafoy during the Franco-Prussian war and she kept dressing in men's clothing when she came back to France. This was against the law in France at the time, but when she returned from the Middle East she received special "permission de avertissement" from the prefect of police. Of her cross-dressing Dieulafoy wrote, "I only do this to save time. I buy ready-made suits and I can use the time saved this way to do more work". She includes many characters who cross-dress in her fiction, including her novels Volontaire and Frère Pélage