Chevalier d'Éon, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Chevalier d'Éon

French diplomat, spy and soldier

Date of Birth: 05-Oct-1728

Place of Birth: Tonnerre, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France

Date of Death: 21-May-1810

Profession: writer, military personnel, diplomat, spy

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Charles-Geneviève-Louis-Auguste-André-Timothée d'Éon de Beaumont (5 October 1728 – 21 May 1810), usually known as the Chevalier d'Éon, was a French diplomat, spy, Freemason and soldier who fought in the Seven Years' War.
D'Éon had androgynous physical characteristics and natural abilities as a mimic and a spy.
D'Éon appeared publicly as a man and pursued masculine occupations for 49 years, although during that time d'Éon successfully infiltrated the court of Empress Elizabeth of Russia by presenting as a woman.
For 33 years, from 1777, d'Éon dressed as a woman, identifying as female.
Doctors who examined d'Éon's body after death discovered "male organs in every respect perfectly formed", but also feminine characteristics.



Alternative names	Jean Mosnier; Jean Laurent Mosnier; Jean Laurent Mounier; Mounier; Mosnier
Description	French court painter
Date of birth/death	circa 1743 date QS:P,+1743-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902	10 April 1808
Location of birth/death	Paris	Saint Petersburg
Work location	Paris (1791); London (1791–1797); Hamburg (1797–1801); Saint Petersburg (1802–1808)
Authority control	: Q1523362 VIAF: 77240386 ISNI: 0000 0000 6684 4995 ULAN: 500007138 WGA: MOSNIER, Jean-Laurent GND: 124134203