";s:4:"text";s:7594:" Charles-Geneviève-Louis-Auguste-André-Timothée d'Éon de Beaumont (5 October 1728 – 21 May 1810), usually known as the Chevalier d'Éon, was a French diplomat, spy, soldier and Freemason whose first 49 years were spent as a man, and whose last 33 years were spent as a woman. If you wish to license an image, please use our Rights and Images service. Believing this, Beaumarchais managed to get him a pension, but Éon was ordered to return to France wearing women’s dress. If you require information from us, please use our Archive enquiry service. Please could you let us know your source of information. Charles-Genevieve-Louis-Auguste-Andre-Timothee, Chevalier d'Eon (5 October 1728 – 21 May 1810) was a spy of the Kingdom of France, French Republic, and French Empire..
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Charles-Genevieve-Louis-Auguste-Andre-Timothee, Chevalier d'Eon (5 October 1728 – 21 May 1810) was a spy of the Kingdom of France, French Republic, and French Empire. Sitter in 19 portraitsThe Chevalier d'Eon was a French soldier, diplomat, spy and fencing demonstrator who lived as a woman from 1777. Historica Wiki is a FANDOM Games Community. In October 1760 he returned and in May 1761 he became a dragoon captain that fought against the Prussians, Hanoverians, and British in the Battle of Villinghausen.
D’Éon died in 1810. He fenced for a living, but around this time, he became known as a woman. How do you know this? https://historica.fandom.com/wiki/Charles,_Chevalier_d%27Eon?oldid=239392. On returning to Versailles with the Treaty of Paris ratified (1763), he received the cross of St. Louis. Can you tell us more about this person?
Eventually, in need of money, he pretended to Beaumarchais in 1775 that he was really a woman. Detail from a mezzo-tint print dated June 25, 1771, one of many jests on Freemasonry (AQC, XVI, 1903). Having returned to London in 1785, he died there 25 years later.
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Switchboard: +44 (0) 20 7306 0055, (1728-1810), Diplomatist and transvestite, We are currently closed until spring 2023, while essential building works take place, Charles Geneviève Louis Auguste André Timothée d'Eon de Beaumont in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
Updates? She had a professor of anatomy, two surgeons, a lawyer and a journalist all examine the body to determine and report on d’Éon’s true gender.
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Be on the lookout for your Britannica newsletter to get trusted stories delivered right to your inbox. He opened the Ealing Blues Club in a basement on Ealing Broadway and encouraged, inspired, and employed a number of musicians in his band, Blues Incorporated, some of…. Let us know if you have suggestions to improve this article (requires login). Please ensure your comments are relevant and appropriate. Select the portrait of interest to you, then look out for a Buy a Print button. Along with Chevalier Alexander-Pierre de Mackensie-Douglas (baron of Kildin), he was sent on a mission to talk with the pro-French faction of the Russian Empire, although Great Britain defended the border.
Charles-Genevieve-Louis-Auguste-Andre Timothee d'Eon de Beaumont was born on 5 October 1728 in Tonnerre, Burgundy, Kingdom of France.
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D'Eon succeeded and was known as "Lea de Beaumont" during his mission. D'Eon secured the sympathy of the British public in the following years, but in July 1766 King Louis XV paid off D'Eon's silence with a 12,000 livre annuity as a pension. His first mission was to the Russian empress Elizabeth in 1755, on which he seems to have disguised himself as a woman.
Please Like other favourites! October 5, 1728 - May 21, 1810. Sent back to London with secret instructions from the King for espionage, he became involved in a quarrel with the French ambassador but refused to return to France—afterward claiming that Louis XV had instructed him to redisguise himself as a woman and to hide in the city.
Search over 215,000 works, 150,000 of which are illustrated from the 16th Century to the present day. Work Search: tip: words:100 1 - 20 of 35 Works in Charles d'Éon de Beaumont (1728-1810). He was employed as a spy against the Austrian Empire, Russian Empire, Prussia, Great Britain, and their allies during the Sixth Coalition and the following wars in Europe, and in 1810 he headed to Gibraltar in British-held Spain, where he made local contacts and became an effective spy. De Beaumont repudiated all knowledge of any such transaction.
D'Eon was forced to dress as a woman when the British refused to allow anyone but women and children to cross the border into Russia; men found on the Russian side would be killed. There are occasions when we are unsure of the identity of a sitter or artist, their life dates, occupation or have not recorded their family relationships. On 30 March 1763, he was made the Chevalier d'Eon, a noble rank, and he aided in the surveying of British shores for a possible invasion.
By ticking permission to publish you are indicating your agreement for your contribution to be shown on this collection item page. D'Eon used secret letters to blackmail the French king, Louis XVI, and was paid an income from 1777 on the condition that d'Eon wore women's clothes. If you tick permission to publish your name will appear above your contribution on our website. Contributions are moderated.
22 janv. However, D'Eon was given a job in 1806 under Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte of the French Empire at the time of the Napoleonic Wars. Sitter in 19 portraits The Chevalier d'Eon was a French soldier, diplomat, spy and fencing demonstrator who lived as a woman from 1777. Navigation and Actions. An autopsy performed two days after his death certified him male.