The strange career of the Chevalier d'Eon de Beaumont : $b Minister plenipotentiary from France to Great Britain in 1763Telfer, J. Buchan (John Buchan)
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The strange career of the Chevalier d'Eon de Beaumont : $b Minister plenipotentiary from France to Great Britain in 1763
Telfer, J. Buchan (John Buchan)
Eon de Beaumont, Charles Geneviève Louis Auguste André Timothée d', 1728-1810; France -- Foreign relations -- 1715-1774
Vade Mecum, ou Dictionnaire Portatif de la Créance des Saints Pères,
puisé dans les livres mêmes des Ministres Protestans. Divisé par
Chapîtres et digéré par ordre alphabétique. Ou, Manuel des Chrétiens
catholiques; ou Nomenclature Théologique. pp. 454, 8vo.
Mémoires, Documens, Remarques, Extraits et Notes Instructives, recueillis
par la Chevalière D’Eon, pour servir à la Vie du Comte de Vauban né le 12
Mai 1633, mort Maréchal de France, à Paris, le 30 Mars 1707, âgé de 74
ans.
La chevalière D’Eon s’est occupée long-tems de ce grand Travail; mais
ses anciennes Occupations militaires, politiques et littéraires, sans
compter les querelles d’Allemans et la guerre civile et incivile qu’elle
a soutenue pendant des longues années en Angleterre, ont consommé et
consumé ses plus belles années. Après 36 ans de Travaux militaires et
politiques, elle ne se trouve pas assez riche, et elle est trop vieille
aujourd’hui, pour entreprendre et finir un Ouvrage aussi savant et aussi
considérable etc. etc. etc.
APPENDIX.
They who have seen the face of the _eiserne jungfrau_ in the dread
dungeon of the Inquisition at Nuremberg, even though by the lurid light
of the keeper’s candle-stuffs, will experience little difficulty in
figuring to themselves the habitual expression of the Chevalier D’Eon’s
features, where every sentiment implanted by nature and conveyed in the
open face, intelligent eyes, and well-shaped nose, was subjugated by the
agitated spirit of sarcasm and disdain that kept rippling, as it were,
out of the spacious brow, and overspreading the otherwise attractive
countenance.
In the various portraits herewith described, the Chevalier or Chevalière
D’Eon is represented in female attire except in those marked *.
1. Angelica Kauffmann after Latour. Francis Haward, R.A., sculpsit
(_mezzo-tinto_) published (by the engraver), January 18, 1788, from the
picture in the collection of George Keate, Esq.
Carola Genovefa Louisa Augusta Andrea Timothea D’Eon de Beaumont, Knight
of the Royal and Military Order of St. Louis, Captain of Dragoons and the
Volunteers of the Army, Aide-de-Camp to the Maréchal Duke and Count de
Broglio, Minister Plenipotentiary from the King of France to the King of
Great Britain in 1763. Born at Tonnerre, October 5, 1728. Painted in her
twenty-fifth year. (See p. 14, from a photograph by C. Prætorius.)
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