Historian
The Wonder of Her Sex: The Chevalière D’Eon
A spy who became a celebrity.
A diplomat between superpowers.
A trans woman who presented as a man for fifty years.
Bloomsbury, October 2026.
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D’Eon in her own words
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Let the world be taken aback by my transition, it even astonishes me.
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Do you know why I suffer on earth like a very impatient patient? It's because the law has declared and pronounced me to be a woman despite myself, so that I no longer follow my own will, but that of God, of the law and of the King.
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O woman of little faith! Tell me if you please, what sex is my soul, you, who at my birth could not say what sex my body was?
