Keen wit and a sharp blade, D'Éon is an icon of sexual ambiguity and one of French history's greatest mysteries. The controversy surrounding the knight's gender was one of the juiciest bits of gossip of the 18th century. But his history only starts out glamorously. Éon was indeed an androgynous spy as at ease in a skirt as a Dragoon captain's uniform,...
Louis XV's favorite spy, the Chevalier d'Éon has infiltrated the king's court in England and earned a comfortable position as Minister. But the intrigues, his position as a secret agent, and the king's erratic impulses will put him in peril. In the end, D'Éon will fall from grace. He will need all his energy and skill to make it out of this difficult...
Keen wit and a sharp blade, D'Éon is an icon of sexual ambiguity and one of French history's greatest mysteries. The controversy surrounding the knight's gender was one of the juiciest bits of gossip of the 18th century. But his history only starts out glamorously. Éon was indeed an androgynous spy as at ease in a skirt as a Dragoon captain's uniform,...