Contrary to the implication of the honorific, Madame DuBarry is in fact male. [Novel #9: "Max Smart and The Ghastly Ghost Affair".] Reality Check: Madame DuBarry shares his name with Jeanne Bécu, comtesse du Barry, the last Maîtresse-en-titre of Louis XV of France and one of the victims of the Reign of Terror during the French Revolution. A musical by Cole Porter was titled DuBarry Was a Lady.
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