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3130 x 4500 px | 26,5 x 38,1 cm | 10,4 x 15 inches | 300dpi
Aufnahmedatum:
2. Oktober 2017
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Charles-Geneviève-Louis-Auguste-André-Timothée d'Éon de Beaumont or Madame d'Eon (1728-1810), usually known as the Chevalier d'Éon, was a French diplomat, spy, freemason and soldier who fought in the Seven Years' War. D'Éon had androgynous physical characteristics and natural abilities as a mimic, good features for a spy. D'Éon appeared publicly as a man and pursued masculine occupations for 49 years, although during that time d'Éon successfully infiltrated the court of Empress Elizabeth of Russia by presenting as a woman. For 33 years, from 1777, d'Éon dressed as a woman, identifying as female. In 1804, d'Éon was sent to a debtors' prison for five months, and signed a contract for a biography to be written by Thomas William Plummer, which was never published. D'Éon became paralyzed following a fall, and spent a final four years bedridden, dying in poverty in 1810 at the age of 81. Doctors who examined his body after death discovered "male organs in every respect perfectly formed" but also feminine characteristics.
