The Chevalier d'Éon was a French diplomat, soldier, and spy active in the mid to late 1700s. They could also have been intersex or transgender. [media-credit name ...
Chevalier d’Eon was a spy, fencer, and gender identity trailblazer who blackmailed a King. Not only was Chevalier d’Eon a respected diplomat, trusted spy, and cunning secret agent, they also were a ...
What it’s about: A 19th-century French soldier, spy, and trans woman. Charles-Geneviève-Louis-Auguste-André-Timothée d’Éon de Beaumont rose through the French court. The Chevalier fought in the Seven ...
If Virginia Woolf’s time-traveling, gender-shifting “Orlando” had crash-landed in the French courts of Louis XV and Louis XVI, the result might be a bit like Canadian playwright Mark Brownell’s ...