![]() Although in recent years she had lived near to the poverty line, her story was well known in London. We start at the end of the story. The Chevalier d’Eon died on at the age of 82. So let’s delve in to a tale of espionage, secrecy, swashbuckling and remarkable self-fashioning. The British Museum has almost sixty prints and other documents relating to the Chevalier’s life in London, many of which I reproduce here. What follows is, therefore, considerably longer than my usual posts but is amply illustrated. ![]() Since there’s a lot of misleading information about the Chevalier online, and since this remarkable story deserves to be known more widely, I decided to turn my lecture into a blog post. ![]() I’m pleased to say that it went very well and feedback suggests that the Chevalier’s story exerts just as much fascination today as it did back in the 18th century. I mentioned in my post on Monsieur d’Eon is a Woman that I’d been asked to give a lecture in my professional capacity about the Chevalier d’Eon. ![]()
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