The Maiden of Tonnerre: The Vicissitudes of the Chevalier and the Chevalière D'Eon by Roland A. Champagne, Gary Kates, Nina C. Ekstein, Charles de Beaumont, chevalier d'Éon
The Maiden of Tonnerre: The Vicissitudes of the Chevalier and the Chevalière D'Eon

Roland A. Champagne, Gary Kates, Nina C. Ekstein, Charles de Beaumont, chevalier d'Éon

The Maiden of Tonnerre: The Vicissitudes of the Chevalier and the Chevalière D'Eon

Roland A. Champagne, Gary Kates, Nina C. Ekstein, Charles de Beaumont, chevalier d'Éon

207 pages first pub 2001 (view editions)

nonfiction history informative inspiring slow-paced
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Chevalier d'Eon de Beaumont was born in 1728. Raised as a boy, he was educated as a lawyer and entered the service of Louis XV as a diplomat. In 1756 he was sent to the Russian imperial court as a spy and was said to have dressed as a young woman ...

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