|
Charles-Geneviève-Louis-Auguste-André-Timothée Éon de Beaumont (1728 - 1810), usually known as the Chevalier d'Eon was a French diplomat, soldier and Freemason who lived the first half of his life as a man and the second half as a woman. Events Astronomical aberration discovered by the astronomer James Bradley Swedish academy of sciences founded at Uppsala Births January 9 - Thomas Warton, English poet (d. ...
1810 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ...
This page is about negotiations; for the board game, see Diplomacy (game). ...
A Norwegian soldier (a Corporal, armed with an MP-5) A soldier is a person who has enlisted with, or has been conscripted into, the armed forces of a sovereign country and has undergone training and received equipment to defend that country or its interests. ...
the Square and Compasses Freemasonry is a worldwide fraternal organization. ...
D'Eon Beaumont was born in Tonnere, France on October 5, 1728. His father, Louis d?Eon de Beaumont, was an attorney and his mother, Françoise de Chavanson, was a noblewoman. Most of what we know about d'Eon's early life comes from his biography and its reliability is questionable. He later claimed that he had been born a girl but that he was raised as a boy because her father could inherit his in-laws only if he would have a son. October 5 is the 278th day of the year (279th in Leap years). ...
Events Astronomical aberration discovered by the astronomer James Bradley Swedish academy of sciences founded at Uppsala Births January 9 - Thomas Warton, English poet (d. ...
This is an article on biographies. ...
D'Eon excelled in school and graduated 1749 from College Mazarin in Paris. He worked as a secretary of the administrator of the fiscal department and as a royal censor. Events While in debtors prison, John Cleland writes Fanny Hill (Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure). ...
The Eiffel Tower has become a symbol of Paris throughout the world. ...
D'Eon as a spy In 1756 d'Eon joined the secret network of spies that worked only for Louis XV. The king sent him on a secret mission to Russia to meet empress Elizabeth I to start secret negotiations about new diplomatic relations. Later tales claim that he disguised himself as a lady Lia de Beaumont to do so. Louis XV (February 15, 1710 – May 10, 1774), called the Well-Beloved (French: le Bien-Aimé), was King of France from 1715 to 1774. ...
This page is about negotiations; for the board game, see Diplomacy (game). ...
In 1761 d'Eon returned to France. The next year he became a captain of dragoons under the Marshal Broglie and fought in the latter stages of the Seven Years' War. He was wounded and received a Cross of Saint-Louis, which gave him a rank of chevalier. A light dragoon from the American Revolution Statue of a dragoon on the Triumph Arc of the Louvres in Paris A dragoon was traditionally a soldier trained to fight on foot, but transport himself on horseback. ...
Arms of the ducs de Broglie (or, a saltire anchory azure) The title of Duc de Broglie was a French peerage belonging to a family of Piedmontese origin, which emigrated to France in the year 1643. ...
The Seven Years War (1754 and 1756–1763) pitted Great Britain, Prussia, and Hanover against France, Austria, Russia, Sweden, and Saxony. ...
...
In 1763 d'Eon became plenipotentiary minister in London and spied for the king. He collected information for a potential invasion. He formed connections with English nobility by sending them the produce of his own vineyards. When he was about to lose the post of the plenipotentiary, he complained and eventually decided to disobey orders to return to France. In his letter to the king he claimed that the new ambassador had tried to drug him. In 1764 he published most of the secret diplomatic correspondence about his recall. The term plenipotentiary (from the Latin, plenus + potens, full + power) refers to a person who has full powers. ...
The clock tower of the Palace of Westminster, which contains Big Ben London is the capital city of the United Kingdom and of England. ...
In 1766 Louis XV granted him a pension for his services and gave him a 12.000-livre annuity. He continued to work as a spy but he lived in political exile in London. The livre tournois (or Tournoise pound) was a currency used in France, named after the town of Tours, in which it was minted. ...
Exile is a form of punishment. ...
D'Eon as a lady Despite the fact that d'Eon wore his dragoon's uniform all the time, there were rumors that he was actually a woman. A betting pool in was started on the London Stock Exchange regarding his gender. In 1771, after the death of Louis XV, d'Eon tried to negotiate his return. He also claimed that physically he was not a man, but a woman and demanded that the government would recognize him as a woman. King Louis XVI and his court complied and demanded that he wear women's clothing. D'Eon agreed, especially when the king granted funds for a new wardrobe. In 1777 d'Eon returned to France and afterwards lived as a woman. The Source by Greyworld, in the new LSE building The London Stock Exchange (abbreviated LSE) is a stock exchange located in London. ...
Louis XVI (August 23, 1754 – January 21, 1793), was King of France and Navarre from 1774 until 1791, and then King of the French in 1791-1792. ...
When France begun to help the rebels during the American War of Independence, d'Eon asked to be able to join French troops in America. He was jailed below the castle of Dijon for 19 days and spent the following six years with his mother in Tonnerre. The American Revolutionary War (1775–1783), also known as the American War of Independence, was a war fought primarily between Great Britain and revolutionaries within thirteen of her North American colonies. ...
Location within France Street in the centre of Dijon Dijon ( pronunciation?) is a city in eastern France, the préfecture (administrative capital) of the Côte-dOr département (county) and of the Bourgogne région. ...
In 1779 Beaumont published his memoirs La Vie Militaire, politique, et privée de Mademoiselle d'Eon. They were ghostwritten by a friend called La Fortelle and are probably embellished.
D'Eon returned to England in 1785. He lost his pension after the French Revolution and had to sell his library. In 1792 he sent a letter to French National Assembly and offered to lead a division of women soldiers against Austria, but the offer was rebuffed. He participated in fencing tournaments until he was seriously wounded in 1796. In 1805 he signed a contract for an autobiography, but the book was never published. He spent his last years with a widow Mrs. Cole. During the French Revolution (1789–1799) democracy and republicanism overthrew the absolute monarchy in France, and the French portion of the Roman Catholic Church was forced to undergo radical restructuring. ...
The Palais Bourbon, front The French National Assembly (French: Assemblée nationale) is one of the two houses of the bicameral Parliament of France under the Fifth Republic. ...
Autobiography (from the Greek auton, self, bios, life and graphein, write) is biography, the writing of a life story, from the viewpoint of the subject. ...
Chevalier d'Eon died on May 21, 1810 in London. Doctors who examined him after death discovered that her/his body was anatomically male. May 21 is the 141st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (142nd in leap years). ...
1810 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ...
The clock tower of the Palace of Westminster, which contains Big Ben London is the capital city of the United Kingdom and of England. ...
The term Eonism was coined to refer to similar cases of transgender behavior, but is now little used because of its ambiguity. Transgender (TG) is also a style of fanart. ...
Books - Gary Kates - Monsieur D'Eon Is a Woman : A Tale of Political Intrigue and Sexual Masquerade (2001) ISBN 0-801-86731-2, Johns Hopkins University Press
External links |
Feeds |
Contact