Transexual.- Portrait of Mademoiselle La Chevaliere d'Éon de Beaumont , stipple-engraved in sepia by Thomas Chambars after Richard Cosway 173 x 112mm (platemark), published by Benjamin Beale Evans, 1787; and 3 other engravings relating to the same (2 portraits), v.s. (4) ⁂ The Chevalier d'Éon was a French diplomat, spy and freemason, who had androgynous physical attributes and excellent mimicry skills. For 33 years from 1777 he dressed as a woman and claimed to be female, managing to infiltrate the court of Empress Elizabeth of Russia in a woman's costume. Upon d'Éon's death doctors' examinations found him to be male.
Transexual.- Portrait of Mademoiselle La Chevaliere d'Éon de Beaumont , stipple-engraved in sepia by Thomas Chambars after Richard Cosway 173 x 112mm (platemark), published by Benjamin Beale Evans, 1787; and 3 other engravings relating to the same (2 portraits), v.s. (4) ⁂ The Chevalier d'Éon was a French diplomat, spy and freemason, who had androgynous physical attributes and excellent mimicry skills. For 33 years from 1777 he dressed as a woman and claimed to be female, managing to infiltrate the court of Empress Elizabeth of Russia in a woman's costume. Upon d'Éon's death doctors' examinations found him to be male.
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