The strange career of the Chevalier d'Eon de Beaumont

Chapter 6: Charles-Geneviève-Louis-Auguste-André-Timothée Charlotte-Geneviève-Louisa-Augusta-Andrée-Timothée-Marie D’EON DE BEAUMONT.

By J. Buchan Telfer

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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.

Charles-Geneviève-Louis-Auguste-André-Timothée
Charlotte-Geneviève-Louisa-Augusta-Andrée-Timothée-Marie
D’EON DE BEAUMONT.

Doctor of Civil and of Canon Law, and Advocate of the Parliament of Paris.
Censor Royal for History and Belles-Lettres.
Sent to Russia, first secretly, then officially, with the Chevalier Douglas
for the Purpose of re-establishing friendly Relations between that Country and France.
Secretary of the Embassy Extraordinary at the Court of Her Imperial Majesty, the Empress Elizabeth.
Captain of Dragoons and Aide-de-Camp to Marshal the Duke and to the Count de Broglio.
Secretary of the Embassy Extraordinary from France to Great Britain for concluding the Peace of 1763.
Knight of the Royal and Military Order of Saint Louis.
Resident, and afterwards Minister Plenipotentiary from France to Great Britain,
and, finally,
a Lady at the Court of Marie Antoinette,
and an occasional and honoured Inmate
at
L’Abbaye Royale des Dames de Hautes Bruyères,
La Maison des Demoiselles de St. Cyr,
and at the
Monastère des Filles de Ste. Marie.