WXDA Person Record #380
D'Eon
Person Details
- Person Type
- Subject of study
- Social Rank
- Aristocrat
- Honorific
- Chevalier; Madame; Mademoiselle
- Name / Title(s)
- D'Eon
- Title
- D'Eon
Mentioned in 10 Records
- No title.8 Apr 1785Woman Warrior
News that Mad. D'Eon obtained permission to make the journey to England in "man's clothes".
- Extract of a Letter from Paris, March 18.9 Apr 1785Woman Warrior
Prince Henry of Prussia visits Chevalier D'Eon
- Madame D'Eon29 Nov 1785Woman Warrior
"Madame D'Eon, formerly the Chevalier, has since her arrival in London, been ushered into company by a gentleman" she seconded in a dueled, "has lain with a lad…
- No title.9 Dec 1785Woman Warrior
Mad. D'Eon and Empress of Russia are the same age and "two such heroines have never existed since the days of the Amazons!"
- No title.12 Dec 1785Woman Warrior
The original prologue to the Tragedy of Percy (current performance being reviewed) has some lines that are "so perfectly a-propos" with the recent arrival of th…
- No title.21 Jan 1786Woman Warrior
"Mad. D'Eon has lately been the object of" Beaumarchais's "love and addresses". Not caring to be subordinated in marriage, "the indignant Amazon" scared him off…
- No title.25 Mar 1786Woman Warrior
"Madam D'Eon dined and spent an evening last week with the Prince of Wales: though this lady has laid aside the breeches and re-assumed the petticoat, she still…
- No title.1 Jun 1786Woman Warrior
"Mademoiselle, or, to speak with reference to her character rather than her sex, the Chavalier [sic] D'Eon. was at Drury-lane Theatre, to see the Grecian Daught…
- No title.22 Jan 1787Woman Warrior
"The Chevalier, or Mademoiselle D'Eon, is still in this country. The occasion of her return to England was some pecuniary dispute with Lord Ferrers, which is sa…
- No title.24 Jan 1787Woman Warrior
"Mademoiselle D'Eon, as she was waiting some little time ago, at an inn, to change horses, happened to look in the glass, and perceiving that she had forgotten …