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D'Eon de Beaumont, his life and times

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The biography traces the life of the chevalier d’Eon from provincial origins through a varied military and diplomatic career, including secret-service missions and embassies to Russia and London, to ultimate disgrace and litigation. It follows contested episodes—negotiations, quarrels with colleagues, publications, and pension arrangements—and the deliberate decision to assume feminine identity to regain public standing. Drawn chiefly from unpublished papers, letters, and official archives, the account reconstructs personal correspondence and contemporaneous testimony to explore issues of secrecy, reputation, gender performance, and the social and political circles of the period.

AUTHORITIES CITED

Papiers Inédits de d’Eon.

Lettres, Mémoires et Negociations particulières du Chevalier d’Eon. Londres, 1764.

Boutaric. Correspondance secrète inedite de Louis XV. Paris 1866.

Duc de Broglie. Le Secret du Roi. Paris, 1888.

Mémoires du Duc de Luynes.

Mémoires du Marquis d’Argenson.

Archives des Affaires Etrangères.

Gaillardet. Mémoires sur la Chevalière d’Eon.

La Messelière. Voyage à Saint-Petersbourg. Paris, 1803.

Vandal, A. Louis XV. et Elizabeth de Russie. Paris, 1896.

De La Fortelle. Vie Militaire, politique et privée de Mlle. Charles-Geneviève-Louise-Auguste-Andrée-Timothée d’Eon de Beaumont. Paris, 1779.

Perey, Lucien. Un Petit-Neveu de Mazarin. Paris, 1893.

Campan, Madame. Mémoires sur la vie privée de Marie-Antoinette.

MSS. of the Christie Collection, cited by Telfer.

Walpole, Horace. Letters.

Bachaumont. Journal d’un Observateur.

Telfer, B. The Strange Career of the Chevalier d’Eon de Beaumont.

Mémoires de Jacques Casanova. Bruxelles, 1871.

De Loménie. Beaumarchais et son Temps.

Grimm. Correspondance Littéraire. Paris, 1812.

Georgel, Abbé. Mémoires.

Fromageot. La Chevalière d’Eon à Versailles (Le Carnet historique et littéraire, 1900).