Vedic Horoscope for Barbin, Herculine

French hermaphrodite, born in the eighteenth century with ambiguous genitalia and was consigned the female sex, named Adelaide-Herculine Barbin. She was usually called Alexina. Her father, a sabot maker, died some time early in her life and when she was age seven her destitute mother accepted the offer of a Mother Superior in a convent. Barbin was moved from the hospital where she had lived since birth into a Catholic orphanage where she lived as a pious girl, 1845-53. Sy Scholfield quotes Michel Foucault who discovered the memoirs of Barbin in the archives of the French Dept of Public Hygiene: Herculine Barbin: Being the Recently Discovered Memoirs of a Nineteenth-Century French Hermaphrodite by Barbin, with introduction by Michel Foucault, translated by Richard McDougall (NY: Pantheon, 1980), p. 150 cites birth record: "In the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty eight, on the eighth of November, at three o'clock in the afternoon, ....appeared Jean Barbin...who presented to us a child of the feminine sex, born last night at midnight in the home of the father and mother...to whom he gave the first names Adelaide Herculine."