Chevalier D'Eon

Chevalier D'Eon

Charles-Geneviève-Louis-Auguste-André-Timothée d'Éon de Beaumont later known as Charlotte-Genevieve-Louise-Auguste-Andree-Timothee d'Eon de Beaumont (5 October 1728 Tonnerre – 21 May 1810 London), usually known as the Chevalier d'Éon, was a French diplomat, spy and soldier whose first 49 years were spent as a man, and whose last 33 years were spent as a woman. Upon death, a council of physicians discovered that d'Éon's body was anatomically male.