French diplomat, spy and soldier. d’Éon lived openly as a trans woman while in exile in England.

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Le Chevalier D'Éon, a man who passed as a woman. Engraving.

Le Chevalier D'Éon, a man who passed as a woman. Stipple engraving by R. Cooper, 1821.

Le Chevalier D'Éon, a man who passed as a woman. Stipple engraving by T. Chambers after R. Cosway, 1787.

Le Chevalier D'Éon, a man who passed as a woman. Reproduction after J.G. Huquier.

Two scenes of Le Chevalier D'Éon fencing at Angelo's Fencing Academy. Reproductions of watercolours, 1904, by T. Rowlandson.

Le Chevalier D'Éon, a man who passed as a woman: shown half in woman's, half in man's attire. Engraving.

Le Chevalier D'Éon, a man who passed as a woman. Mezzotint by Vispré.

The Chevalier D'Eon meets bankers in a London office or coffee-house to discuss wagers placed on whether D'Eon was a man or a woman. Engraving, 1771.

Le Chevalier D'Éon, a man who passed as a woman. Stipple engraving by R. Cooper, 1810.

The strange career of the Chevalier d'Eon de Beaumont : minister plenipotentiary from France to Great Britain in 1763 / by Captain J. Buchan Telfer.

The maiden of Tonnerre : the vicissitudes of the chevalier and the chevalière d'Eon / Charles d'Eon de Beaumont ; translated and edited by Roland A. Champagne, Nina Ekstein, Gary Kates.

An elegy on the lamented death of the electrical eel, or gymnotus electricus : with the lapidary inscription, as placed on a superb erection, at the expence of the Countess of H---------, and Chevalier-Madame d'Eon de Beaumont / By Lucretia Lovejoy [pseud.], sister to Mr. Adam Strong, author of the Electrical eel.

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Chevalier d'Éon

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The maiden of Tonnerre : the vicissitudes of the chevalier and the chevalière d'Eon / Charles d'Eon de Beaumont ; translated and edited by Roland A. Champagne, Nina Ekstein, Gary Kates.

Chevalier d'Éon

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The maiden of Tonnerre : the vicissitudes of the chevalier and the chevalière d'Eon / Charles d'Eon de Beaumont ; translated and edited by Roland A. Champagne, Nina Ekstein, Gary Kates.

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