CHAPTER XVIII.
D’Eon (_la citoyenne Geneviève_) offers her services to the Legislative Assembly—Is ordered to join General Dumouriez—Detained in England—Her English friends—Fences in public—Is seriously wounded—Distressing times—Last days—Death—Autopsy and appearance of the body—Administration of property—General character—Pursuits and habits late in life—Maxims on religion—Coldness of temperament—Reflections—Fugitive pieces 322
ARGUMENT 347
APPENDIX 365
INDEX 369
_ILLUSTRATIONS._
PORTRAIT OF LA CHEVALIÈRE D’EON, 1782 _Frontispiece_
ARMS OF THE CHEVALIER D’EON DE BEAUMONT _p._ xxii
PORTRAIT OF D’EON DE BEAUMONT, AGED 25 _to face p._ 14
PORTRAIT OF THE CHEVALIER D’EON, 1770 ” 208
FACSIMILE OF AN AUTOGRAPH TITLE-PAGE IN THE CHRISTIE COLLECTION OF D’EON MSS. ” 258
_Erratum._
_For_ 32 Brewer Street, Golden Square, as being the residence in London of the Chevalier D’Eon during thirty-three years, _read_ 38 Brewer Street, Golden Square.
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Ch. MSS., _D’Eon MSS. in the possession of Mr. Christie_.
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Broglie, Le Duc de, _Le Secret du Roi, correspondance secrète de Louis XV. avec ses agents diplomatiques, 1752-1774_. 3ᵉ édition. Paris, 1879. 2 vols.
Campan, Madame, _Mémoires sur la vie privée de Marie-Antoinette, etc._ Paris, 1822. 3 vols.
Dutens, Louis, _Mémoires d’un Voyageur qui se repose, contenant des Anecdotes Historiques, Politiques et Littéraires, relatives à plusieurs des principaux personnages du siècle._ Londres, 1806. 3 vols.
Flassan, Raxis de, _Histoire Générale et Raisonnée de la Diplomatie Française, etc. etc._ Paris, 1811. 2 vols.
Fortelle, De la, _La Vie Militaire, Politique et Privée de Mademoiselle Charles Geneviève Louis Auguste Andrée Timothée D’Eon de Beaumont, etc. etc._ O quam te memorem Virgo! Paris, MDCCLXXIX.
Gaillardet, Fred., _Mémoires sur la Chevalière D’Eon, etc._ Paris, 1866.
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CHARLES-GENEVIÈVE-LOUIS-AUGUSTE-ANDRÉ-TIMOTHÉE
CHARLOTTE-GENEVIÈVE-LOUISA-AUGUSTA-ANDRÉE-TIMOTHÉE-MARIE
D’EON DE BEAUMONT.
Doctor of Civil and of Canon Law, and Advocate of the Parliament of Paris. Censor Royal for History and Belles-Lettres. Sent to Russia, first secretly, then officially, with the Chevalier Douglas for the Purpose of re-establishing friendly Relations between that Country and France. Secretary of the Embassy Extraordinary at the Court of Her Imperial Majesty, the Empress Elizabeth. Captain of Dragoons and Aide-de-Camp to Marshal the Duke and to the Count de Broglio. Secretary of the Embassy Extraordinary from France to Great Britain for concluding the Peace of 1763. Knight of the Royal and Military Order of Saint Louis. Resident, and afterwards Minister Plenipotentiary from France to Great Britain, and, finally, a Lady at the Court of Marie Antoinette, and an occasional and honoured Inmate at L’Abbaye Royale des Dames de Hautes Bruyères, La Maison des Demoiselles de St. Cyr, and at the Monastère des Filles de Ste. Marie.
THE CHEVALIER D’EON DE BEAUMONT.