Mlle la Chevaliere d'Eon de Beaumont fencing at Carlton House, 9th April 1787 mb-code AAED002277 Plan of the old Royal

Plan of the old Royal Observatory building (now known as Flamsteed House) designed by Christopher Wren (1632-1723) showing rooms

(13 July 1872)

'Siegfried and Fafner'

From the manuscript paper 'An account of a catoptric microscope'

In between the two goddesses stands Cupid

Mlle la Chevaliere d'Eon de Beaumont fencing at Carlton House, 9th April 1787 mb-code AAED002277 Plan of the old Royal'Mlle la Chevaliere d'Eon de Beaumont fencing at Carlton House, 9th April 1787.' The Chevalier d'Eon (1728 1810) having a swordfight with Monsieur de Saint George. Charles Genevieve Louis Auguste Andre Timothee Eon de Beaumont lived the first half of his life as a man and the second half as a woman. Illustration from Social Caricature in the Eighteenth Century With over two hundred illustrations by George Paston [pseudonym of Emily Morse Symonds],