Mlle la Chevaliere d'Eon de Beaumont fencing, 18th century. Artist: Unknown

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Mlle la Chevaliere d'Eon de Beaumont fencing, 18th century. Charles-Genevieve-Louis-Auguste-Andre-Timothee Eon de Beaumont (1728-1810) 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], (London, 1905).

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