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Royal spy : the strange case of the Chevalier d'Eon, dressed as a man he was none the less a woman; dressed as a woman she was none the less a man
Nixon, Edna; Pencheon, James Michael (1924-1982)
[1965]
Was the Chevalier d'Eon a man or a woman? He was the first of Louis XV's secret agents, and his first diplomatic mission was to Moscow, where disguised as a young girl he spent six months as one of th...