The Chevalière d'Eon, Transgender Autobiography and Identity.

The Chevalier/Chevalière d’Eon lived as a man until age forty-seven and thereafter as a woman until death at age eighty-two in 1810. Recent scholarship has emphasised this soldier-diplomat-spy’s manipulations and duplicity and even questions whether the chevalière should be considered transgender. T...

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Published in:	Gender & History Vol. 31; no. 1; pp. 78 - 91
Main Author:	Morris, Marilyn
Format:	Article
Published:	Wiley-Blackwell Mar2019
Subjects:	Éon de Beaumont, Charles Genevieve Louis Auguste André Timothee d', 1728-1810 Transgender history Transgender people's writings LGBTQ+ autobiographies Gender identity 18th century French history Gender expression
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