Chevalier d'Éon
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Charles-Geneviève-Louis-Auguste-André-Timothée d'Éon de Beaumont (5 October 1728 – 21 May 1810), usually known as the Chevalier d'Éon, was a French diplomat, spy, soldier and Freemason who lived the first half of his life as a man and the second half as a woman.
Legacy
The term eonism was coined by Havelock Ellis to describe similar cases of transgender behavior; it is rarely used now.
The Beaumont Society, a long standing society for transgendered people, is named after Chevalier.
The Oxford English Dictionary records the following: Eonism . . . . Also eonism. [f. the name of the Chevalier Charles d'Éon (1728-1810), a French adventurer who wore women's clothes: see -ism.] Transvestism, esp. by a man. So Eonist, one who wears the clothes of the opposite sex. 1928 H. Ellis Studies Psychol. Sex VII. i. 10 It was clearly a typical case of what Hirschfeld later termed 'transvestism' and what I would call 'sexo-aesthetic inversion', or more simply, 'Eonism'. Ibid. 12 The Eonist (though sometimes emphatically of the apparent sex) sometimes shows real physical approximations towards the opposite sex. 1970 Times 5 Sept. 8/4 Today we can see that the Chevalier was an a-sexual transvestite. From his name Havelock Ellis coined the term eonism to describe this minor deviation.
Books
- Valentin Pikul. Пером и шпагой. Zvezda, 1971.
- Gary Kates – Monsieur D'Eon Is a Woman : A Tale of Political Intrigue and Sexual Masquerade (2001) ISBN 0-8018-6731-2, Johns Hopkins University Press
- Charles D'Eon De Beaumont - "The Maiden of Tonnerre: The Vicissitudes of the Chevalier and the Chevalière D'Eon" (2001) Johns Hopkins University Press
- Evelyn & Maurice Lever, Le Chevalier d'Éon, une vie sans queue ni tête
- Le Chevallier D'eon is a series of manga written by Tou Ubukata and illustrated by Kiriko Yumeji. It is published by Del Rey Manga
- Michel de Decker- "Le Chevalier d'Éon" (1998) France-Empire
- Jean-Michel Royer- "Le Double Je" (1986) Grasset & Fasquelle
See also
- Le Chevalier d'Eon, a 2006 anime series loosely based on the Chevalier d'Éon.
