Royal spy : The strange case of the Chevalier D'Eon / Edna Nixon
Imprint
New York : Reynal, [c1965]
Descript
260 p. : ill ; 23 cm
CONTENT
Origins. -- Political background. -- Le secret du roi. -- The court of St. Petersburg. I. -- The court of St. Petersburg. II. -- Military career. -- The court of St. James. -- The struggle at the French Embassy. -- The Chevalier's triumph and the ambassador's defeat. -- Political reporter. -- Epicene. -- Transvestism (Eonism). -- Nostalgia -- "Animaux extraordinatires" -- The metamorphosis. -- Last years in France. 1777-1785. -- Last years in England. 1785-1810.