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The sitter was born of a noble family on 5 October 1728 at Tonnerre. He Le Chevalier D'bEon, a man who passed as a woman. Engraving. 1 print : stipple with line engraving The sitter was born of a noble family on 5 October 1728 at Tonnerre. He received an excellent education, and by 1758 was a well-known man of letters inParis. Physically he was so fine-featured as to be able to pass easily as a woman, which enabled him to create 'Mademoiselle Lia de Beaumont' - his cover as spy for the 'Secret du Roi'. It was in this guise that he carried out several important and successful missions into Russia. However, so convincing was his adoption of the female persona that by 1769 serious speculation as to his true sex resounded COOPER, ROBERT Iconographic Collections
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Short title | V0007078 Le Chevalier D'bEon, a man who passed as a |
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Author | Wellcome Library, London |
Headline | V0007078 Le Chevalier D'bEon, a man who passed as a |
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Image title | V0007078 Le Chevalier D'bEon, a man who passed as a
Credit: Wellcome Library, London. Wellcome Images images@wellcome.ac.uk http://wellcomeimages.org The sitter was born of a noble family on 5 October 1728 at Tonnerre. He Le Chevalier D'bEon, a man who passed as a woman. Engraving. 1 print : stipple with line engraving The sitter was born of a noble family on 5 October 1728 at Tonnerre. He received an excellent education, and by 1758 was a well-known man of letters inParis. Physically he was so fine-featured as to be able to pass easily as a woman, which enabled him to create 'Mademoiselle Lia de Beaumont' - his cover as spy for the 'Secret du Roi'. It was in this guise that he carried out several important and successful missions into Russia. However, so convincing was his adoption of the female persona that by 1769 serious speculation as to his true sex resounded COOPER, ROBERT Published: - Copyrighted work available under Creative Commons Attribution only licence CC BY 4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
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