THE CHEVALIER D’EON DE BEAUMONT

LONDON: PRINTED BY SPOTTISWOODE AND CO., NEW-STREET SQUARE AND PARLIAMENT STREET

FRONTISPIECE.

LA CHEVALIÈRE D’EON. 1782.

From a Painting in the possession of Charles Liston, Esq. (LATE THE PROPERTY OF CHARLES READE.)

See Appendix.

THE STRANGE CAREER OF THE CHEVALIER D’EON DE BEAUMONT

MINISTER PLENIPOTENTIARY FROM FRANCE TO GREAT BRITAIN IN 1763

BY CAPTAIN J. BUCHAN TELFER, R.N. F.S.A., F.R.G.S. AUTHOR OF ‘THE CRIMEA AND TRANSCAUCASIA’ ‘THE BONDAGE AND TRAVELS OF JOHANN SCHILTBERGER’ ETC.

‘L’homme d’esprit a dans sa plume un juge toujours prêt à le venger des affronts qu’on lui fait’—D’Eon

With Portraits and Facsimile

LONDON LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO. 1885

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A LA VILLE DE TONNERRE