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1 online resource (271 pages) : illustrations, photographs |
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Illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Career and Politics 1762-1785; 1 The Chevalier d'Eon, Media Manipulation and the Making of an Eighteenth-Century Celebrity; 2 On the Art of Diplomacy and the Art of Describing Diplomacy: The Chevalier d'Eon and British Political Life at the End of the Seven Years' War; 3 'Faire le Wilkes': the Chevalier d'Eon and the Wilkites, 1762-1775; 4 Beaumarchais and d'Eon: What an Affair; 5 D'Eon and Tonnerre, 1779-1784; Gender and Representation |
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6 A 'monster of metamorphosis': Reassessing the Chevalier/Chevalière d'Eon's Change of Gender7 Dressing d'Eon; 8 The Chevalier d'Eon and his Several Identities; 9 La Vie militaire, politique et privée de Melle d'Eon (1779): Biography and the Art of Manipulation; 10 Identity, Gender, Genre and Truth in The Maiden of Tonnerre: The Vicissitudes of the Chevalier and Chevalière d'Eon; Heroes and Heroines; 11 The Myth of the Amazons in the Eighteenth Century and the Legend of the Chevalier d'Eon; 12 Transvestite Traditions and Narrative Discontinuities: d'Eon and the abbé de Choisy |
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13 The Chevalier d'Eon, Rousseau and New Ideas of Gender, Sex and the Self in the Late Eighteenth Century14 Louvet's Les Amours du Chevalier de Faublas: Sexual, Political and Textual Imbroglios; 15 An Eighteenth-Century French Commonwealthman? Exploring the Context of the Chevalier d'Eon's Translation of Marchamont Nedham's The Excellencie of a Free State; A Note on the d'Eon Archive in the Brotherton Collection, Leeds University Library; Afterword: D'Eon: Christian, Woman and Autobiographer; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z |
| Summary |
Cross-dressing author, envoy, soldier and spy Charles d''Eon de Beaumont''s unusual career fascinated his contemporaries and continues to attract historians, novelists, playwrights, filmmakers, image makers, cultural theorists and those concerned with manifestations of the extraordinary. D''Eon''s significance as a historical figure was already being debated more than 45 years before his death. Not surprisingly, such sensational material has attracted the attention of enthusiasts, scholars and literateurs to ''the strange case of the chevalier d''Eon''. He has also attracted the atte |
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Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed May 13, 2014) |
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Diplomats -- France -- Biography
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Spies -- France -- Biography
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HISTORY -- Europe -- France.
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Diplomats
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Spies
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Diplomaten.
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France
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Frankrijk.
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Biographies
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Burrows, Simon, editor
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| ISBN |
9781441145451 |
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1441145451 |
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