TY  - BOOK
AU  - Telfer,J.Buchan
TI  - The strange career of the Chevalier d'Eon de Beaumont
AV  - DC 
PY  - 2025///
CY  - Salt Lake City, UT
PB  - Project Gutenberg
KW  - France -- Foreign relations -- 1715-1774
KW  - Eon de Beaumont, Charles Geneviève Louis Auguste André Timothée d', 1728-1810
N1  - Release date is 2025-03-20; Super Queer Historian and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive); Originally published; United Kingdom: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1885
N2  - "The Strange Career of the Chevalier D'Eon de Beaumont: Minister Plenipotentiary from France to Great Britain in 1763" by Captain J. Buchan Telfer is a historical account written in the late 19th century. The book explores the life of the Chevalier D'Eon, a prominent figure in 18th-century France whose ambiguous gender identity and roles as a diplomat and spy during intense political times create a fascinating narrative. The main focus is on D'Eon's unique career, including his secret correspondence for Louis XV and significant interactions within European courts.  The opening of the account provides a detailed preface about Louis XV's secret correspondence and reveals D'Eon's early years, background, and training. Telfer sets the stage by discussing D'Eon's role as a secret agent for the King and foreshadows the extraordinary life awaiting the Chevalier. The narrative portrays D'Eon as a complex individual navigating a world that often constrained personal identity within rigid societal norms while simultaneously serving as an influential player in the geopolitical landscape of his time. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
UR  - https://archive.org/download/b28987135
UR  - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/75668
ER  -