Monsieur d'Eon is a woman : a tale of political intrigue and sexual masquerade /
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New York :
Basic Books,
[1995]
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Table of Contents:
- Prologue: The Discovery
- A French Chevaliere
- Maiden Voyage
- Foreign Minister Vergennes
- Tonnerre
- D'Eon's Patrons
- Rose Bertin
- Marie-Antoinette
- Franklin and Voltaire
- Public Perceptions
- D'Eon on d'Eon
- The Hopes of a Good Patriot
- The Rise and Fall of a Statesman
- Louis XV's Diplomacy
- The King's Secret
- Conti and Russia
- The Russian Myth Reexamined
- Diplomacy in Russia
- Dragoon Captain
- Making Peace
- The Secret in England
- Reversal of Fortune
- Recalled
- D'Eon to Louis XV and Broglie
- Broglie to Louis XV
- Scapegoat
- The Lettres, memoires, et negociations
- Libel
- Indictment
- Royal Decree of 1 April 1766
- Inside d'Eon's Library
- D'Eon to Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- Rousseau's Disciple
- D'Eon's Library
- Pompadour and La Pucelle
- Contra Rousseau
- The Transformation
- Contexts
- Rumors
- Drouet's Visit
- Macaulay, d'Epinay, and the Femme Savante
- Hannah Snell and the Amazons
- Morande
- Louis XVI
- The Letter to Poissonier
- The Transaction
- Beaumarchais Bets
- Beaumarchais "To Mlle Genev. L. Deon de Beaumont"
- D'Eon to Beaumarchais
- D'Eon Sues Morande
- Lord Mansfield's Court
- D'Eon's Christian Feminism
- Considering Convents
- Reborn Again
- Return to England
- Gendered Theology
- Christian Feminist.