When the Chevalier d’Eon left France in 1762, he was a diplomat, a spy, a Dragoon captain, and a man. When she returned in 1777, at the age of 49, she was a celebrity, a writer, a fencer, and a woman—by declaration by the government of France. Chevalier d’Eon was born Charles d’Eon de Beaumont, andContinue reading “France’s Chevalier d’Eon, the First Trans Aristocrat”