Mlle la Chevaliere d'Eon de Beaumont fencing at Carlton House, 9th April 1787 mb-code AAED002277 Plan of the old Royal

Plan of the old Royal Observatory building (now known as Flamsteed House) designed by Christopher Wren (1632-1723) showing rooms

The 'fix' she is in is having to decide between them

'Siegfried and Fafner'

(13 July 1872)

Mlle la Chevaliere d'Eon de Beaumont fencing at Carlton House, 9th April 1787 mb-code AAED002277 Plan of the old Royal'Mlle la Chevaliere d'Eon de Beaumont fencing at Carlton House, 9th April 1787.' The Chevalier d'Eon (1728 1810) having a swordfight with Monsieur de Saint George. Charles Genevieve Louis Auguste Andre Timothee Eon de Beaumont lived the first half of his life as a man and the second half as a woman. Illustration from Social Caricature in the Eighteenth Century With over two hundred illustrations by George Paston [pseudonym of Emily Morse Symonds],