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Born in 1728, French aristocrat Charles d'Eon de Beaumont had served his country as a diplomat, soldier, and spy for fifteen years when rumors that he was a woman began to circulate in the courts of Europe. D'Eon denied nothing and was finally compelled by Louis XVI to give up male attire and live as a woman, something d'Eon did without complaint for the next three decades. Although celebrated as one of the century's most remarkable women, d'Eon was revealed, after his death in 1810, to have been unambiguously male. Gary Kates's acclaimed biography of d'Eon recreates eighteenth-century European society in brilliant detail and offers a compelling portrait of an individual who challenged its conventions about gender and identity.… (altro)
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I almost forgot to tell you that Monsieur d'Eon is a woman. - The Marquise du Deffand to Horace Walpole
Do you know the nonsense that has just been told to me this very minute? It is the number of letters from England saying that d'Eon, who has been there forever, is a woman, truly a woman. - Mme d'Epinay to the Abbe Galiani
The so-called Sieur d'Eon is a girl and is nothing other than a girl. - The Comte de Broglie to Louis XV
Do you know...that d'Eon is a girl? - King Louis XV to General Monet
Dedica
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In loving memory of Rachel Kates (1900-1989)
Incipit
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Mrs. Cole was the first to discover the truth.
Citazioni
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I will go where honor calls me and pushes me even if my heart should be pierced by a thousand darts. - Chevalier d'Eon
Ultime parole
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Ultimately, then, what is most significant about d'Eon's autobiographical manuscripts is not the feminist theology, but rather, the way he kept revising them in order to develop a coherent explanation for himself about why he had done something that no other political figure in European history had done before or since.
Born in 1728, French aristocrat Charles d'Eon de Beaumont had served his country as a diplomat, soldier, and spy for fifteen years when rumors that he was a woman began to circulate in the courts of Europe. D'Eon denied nothing and was finally compelled by Louis XVI to give up male attire and live as a woman, something d'Eon did without complaint for the next three decades. Although celebrated as one of the century's most remarkable women, d'Eon was revealed, after his death in 1810, to have been unambiguously male. Gary Kates's acclaimed biography of d'Eon recreates eighteenth-century European society in brilliant detail and offers a compelling portrait of an individual who challenged its conventions about gender and identity.