Chevalier dEon, who many years passed as a woman, 1728-1810. French diplomat, spy, soldier and professional fencer who dressed in womens clothes from 1777. Author of La Vie militaire, politique et privee de Mademoiselle dEon, 1779. Depicted aged 59 in bonnet, fichu and dress with the Order of Saint Louis. Lithograph after a stipple engraving by Robert Cooper after a 1787 portrait by Richard Cosway from Henry Wilson and James Caulfields Book of Wonderful Characters, Memoirs and Anecdotes, of Remarkable and Eccentric Persons in all ages and countries, John Camden Hotten, Piccadilly, London, 1869.