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The strange career of the Chevalier d'Eon de Beaumont

Chapter 5: WORKS REFERRED TO IN THE FOOTNOTES.
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The biography chronicles the Chevalier's rise through court service and secret diplomatic networks, recounting missions, espionage, and clashes with official envoys while assessing contradictory memoirs and archival records. The author assembles letters, official papers, portraits, and facsimiles to reconstruct political intrigue surrounding the secret correspondence of Louis XV, highlight disputes over the subject's conduct and claims, and weigh contemporary and later accounts against primary documents. The narrative balances anecdote and documentary evidence to map a public career entwined with persistent personal mysteries that shaped reputation and controversy.

WORKS REFERRED TO IN THE FOOTNOTES.

B.M. MSS., D’Eon MSS. at the British Museum.

Ch. MSS., D’Eon MSS. in the possession of Mr. Christie.

Angelo, Henry, Reminiscences of—with Memoirs of his late Father and Friends. London, 1828. 2 vols.

Boutaric, M. E., Archiviste aux Archives de l’Empire. Correspondance secrète inédite de Louis XV. sur la politique étrangère, etc. Paris, 1866. 2 vols.

Broglie, Le Duc de, Le Secret du Roi, correspondance secrète de Louis XV. avec ses agents diplomatiques, 1752-1774. 3ᵉ édition. Paris, 1879. 2 vols.

Campan, Madame, Mémoires sur la vie privée de Marie-Antoinette, etc. Paris, 1822. 3 vols.

Dutens, Louis, Mémoires d’un Voyageur qui se repose, contenant des Anecdotes Historiques, Politiques et Littéraires, relatives à plusieurs des principaux personnages du siècle. Londres, 1806. 3 vols.

Flassan, Raxis de, Histoire Générale et Raisonnée de la Diplomatie Française, etc. etc. Paris, 1811. 2 vols.

Fortelle, De la, La Vie Militaire, Politique et Privée de Mademoiselle Charles Geneviève Louis Auguste Andrée Timothée D’Eon de Beaumont, etc. etc. O quam te memorem Virgo! Paris, MDCCLXXIX.

Gaillardet, Fred., Mémoires sur la Chevalière D’Eon, etc. Paris, 1866.

Kirby, R., Wonderful and Eccentric Museum, etc. London, 1803.

Lacretelle, Chas., Histoire de France pendant le dix-huitième siècle, etc. Paris, 1819. 6 vols.

La Messalière, Voyage à Pétersbourg, etc. Paris, 1803.

Lettres, Mémoires, et Négociations Particulières du Chevalier D’Eon, etc. etc., with MSS. Notes by D’Eon. Londres, 1764.

Loménie, Louis de, Beaumarchais et son Temps, etc. 4ᵉ édition. Paris, 1879. 2 vols.

Mémoires de la Chevalière D’Eon, MSS. work addressed to the Count de Vergennes by the Chevalière, and preserved at the Ministère des Affaires Étrangères. Quoted by Gaillardet and De Broglie.

Pièces Relatives aux Lettres, Mémoires et Négociations Particulières du Chevalier D’Eon, etc. etc. Londres, MDCCLXIV.

Rede, L. T., Anecdotes and Biography, etc. London, 1799.

Roche, James, Critical and Miscellaneous Essays by an Octogenarian, etc. Cork, 1850. 2 vols.

Taylor, John, Records of my Life, etc. London, 1832. 2 vols.

Vandal, Albert, Louis XV. et Elizabeth de Russie, etc. Paris, 1882.

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