:Chevalière d'Éon

{{about|the historical figure|the anime series based on this figure|Le Chevalier D'Eon{{!}}Le Chevalier D'Eon}}

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Charlotte d'Éon de Beaumont or Charles d'Éon de Beaumont{{efn|Full name Charlotte-Geneviève-Louise-Augusta-Andréa-Timothéa d'Éon de Beaumont or Charles-Geneviève-Louis-Auguste-André-Timothée d'Éon de Beaumont}} (5 October 1728{{snd}}21 May 1810), usually known as the Chevalière d'Éon or the Chevalier d'Éon,{{efn|{{lang|fr|chevalière}} is the female equivalent of {{lang|fr|chevalier}}, meaning knight}} was a French diplomat, spy, and soldier. D'Éon fought in the Seven Years' War, and spied for France while in Russia and England. D'Éon had androgynous physical characteristics and natural abilities as a mimic and a spy. D'Éon appeared publicly as a man and pursued masculine occupations for 49 years, although during that time, d'Éon successfully infiltrated the court of Empress Elizabeth of Russia by presenting as a woman. Starting in 1777, d'Éon lived as a woman and was officially recognised as a woman by King Louis XVI.{{cite web |url=https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-incredible-chevalier-deon-who-left-france-as-a-male-spy-and-returned-as-a-christian-woman |last=McRobbie |first=Linda Rodriguez |title=The Incredible Chevalier d'Eon, Who Left France as a Male Spy and Returned as a Christian Woman |date=29 July 2016 |website=Atlas Obscura |access-date=15 March 2021 |archive-date=18 January 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210118174157/https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-incredible-chevalier-deon-who-left-france-as-a-male-spy-and-returned-as-a-christian-woman |url-status=live}}

Early life, family and education

D'Éon was born at the Hôtel d'Uzès in Tonnerre, Burgundy, into a poor French noble family. D'Éon's father, Louis d'Éon de Beaumont, was an attorney and director of the king's dominions, later mayor of Tonnerre and sub-delegate of the {{lang|fr|intendant}} of the {{lang|fr|généralité}} of Paris.{{cite encyclopedia |last=Rogister |first=J.M.J. |title=D'Éon de Beaumont, Charles Geneviève Louis Auguste André Timothée, Chevalier D'Éon in the French nobility (1728–1810) |url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/7523 |encyclopedia=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=2004 |edition=online |access-date=26 April 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141006185733/http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/7523 |archive-date=6 October 2014 |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/7523|url-access=subscription }} D'Éon's mother, Françoise de Charanton, was the daughter of a Commissioner General to the armies of the wars of Spain and Italy.

Most of what is known about d'Éon's early life comes from The Interests of the Chevalier d'Éon de Beaumont,{{cite book |last1=Lever |first1=Evelyne |last2=Lever |first2=Maurice |title=Le Chevalier d'Éon: Une vie sans queue ni tête |publisher=Fayard |date=19 February 2009 |isbn=978-2-213-61630-8 |language=fr}}[https://archive.org/details/cu31924024304762 D'Eon de Beaumont, his life and times], via archive.org a partly ghost-written autobiography, and from Bram Stoker's essay on the Chevalier in his 1910 book Famous Impostors.{{cite book |last=Stoker |first=Bram |author-link=Bram Stoker |title=Famous Impostors |url=http://www.gutenberg.org/files/51391/51391-h/51391-h.htm#IX_THE_CHEVALIER_DEON |url-status=live |publisher=Project Gutenberg |access-date=2 March 2018 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20180302225408/http://www.gutenberg.org/files/51391/51391-h/51391-h.htm#IX_THE_CHEVALIER_DEON |archive-date=2 March 2018 |via=gutenberg.org}}

D'Éon excelled in school, moving from Tonnerre to Paris in 1743 and graduating in civil law and canon law from the Collège Mazarin in 1749 at the age of 21.

Early career

D'Éon began literary work as a contributor to Élie Catherine Fréron's {{lang|fr|Année littéraire}}, and attracted notice as a political writer through two works on financial and administrative questions, published in 1753.{{EB1911|inline=y|wstitle=Eon de Beaumont|volume=9|pages=664–665}} D'Éon became secretary to Bertier de Sauvigny, intendant of Paris, served as a secretary to the administrator of the fiscal department, and was appointed a royal censor for history and literature by Malesherbes in 1758.

Life as a spy

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In 1756, d'Éon joined the secret network of spies called the {{lang|fr|Secret du Roi}} ('King's Secret'), employed by King Louis XV without the knowledge of the government. It sometimes promoted policies that were contrary to official policies and treaties. According to d'Éon's memoirs (although there is no documentary evidence to support that account) the monarch sent d'Éon with the Chevalier Douglas, Alexander Peter Mackenzie Douglas, Baron of Kildin, a Scottish Jacobite in French service, on a secret mission to Russia in order to meet Empress Elizabeth and conspire with the pro-French faction against the Habsburg monarchy. At that time the English and French were at odds, and the English were attempting to deny the French access to the Empress by allowing only women and children to cross the border into Russia. D'Éon later claimed having to pass convincingly as a woman or risk being executed by the English upon discovery and therefore travelled disguised as the lady Lia de Beaumont, and served as a maid of honour to the Empress. However, there is little or no evidence to support this and it is now commonly accepted to be a story told to demonstrate how identifying as female had been of benefit to France in the past. Eventually, Chevalier Douglas became the French ambassador to Russia, and d'Éon was secretary to the embassy in Saint Petersburg from 1756 to 1760, serving Douglas and his successor, the Marquis of l'Hôpital.{{cite book |last1=Burrows |first1=Simon |last2=Goulbourne |first2=Russell |last3=Conlin |first3=Jonathan |last4=Mainz |first4=Valerie |title=The Chevalier d'Éon and his worlds: gender, espionage and politics in the eighteenth century |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qfdFSdxS1dkC |url-status=live |publisher=Continuum |date=23 April 2010 |access-date=10 July 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140704223909/http://books.google.com/books?id=qfdFSdxS1dkC |archive-date=4 July 2014 |isbn=9780826422781}}

D'Éon returned to France in October 1760, and was granted a pension of 2,000 livres as reward for service in Russia. In May 1761, d'Éon became a captain of dragoons under Marshal de Broglie and fought in the later stages of the Seven Years' War. D'Éon served at the Battle of Villinghausen in July 1761, and was wounded at Ultrop. After Empress Elizabeth died in January 1762, d'Éon was considered for further service in Russia, but instead was appointed secretary to the Duke of Nevers, awarded 1,000 livres, and sent to London to draft the peace treaty that formally ended the Seven Years' War. The treaty was signed in Paris on 10 February 1763, and d'Éon was awarded a further 6,000 livres, and received the Order of Saint-Louis on 30 March 1763, becoming the Chevalier d'Éon. The title {{lang|fr|chevalier}}, French for 'knight', is also sometimes used for French noblemen.

Back in London, d'Éon became chargé d'affaires in April 1763, and then plenipotentiary minister—essentially interim ambassador—when the duc de Nivernais returned to Paris in July. D'Éon used this position also to spy for the king. D'Éon collected information for a potential French invasion of Britain—an unfortunate and clumsy initiative of Louis XV, of which Louis's own ministers were unaware—assisting a French agent, {{ill|Louis François Carlet de La Rozière|fr}}, who was surveying the British coastal defences. D'Éon formed connections with English nobility by sending them the produce of d'Éon's vineyard in France; d'Éon abundantly enjoyed the splendour of this interim embassy.

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Upon the arrival of the new ambassador, the Count of Guerchy, in October 1763, d'Éon was demoted to the rank of secretary and humiliated by the count. D'Éon was trapped between two French factions: Guerchy was a supporter of the Duke of Choiseul, Duke of Praslin and Madame de Pompadour, in opposition to the Count of Broglie and his brother the Marshal de Broglie. D'Éon complained, and eventually decided to disobey orders to return to France. In a letter to the king, d'Éon claimed that the new ambassador had tried to drug d'Éon at a dinner at the ambassador's residence in Monmouth House in Soho Square. The British government declined a French request to extradite d'Éon, and the 2,000 livres pension that had been granted in 1760 was stopped in February 1764. In an effort to save d'Éon's station in London, d'Éon published much of the secret diplomatic correspondence about d'Éon's recall under the title {{lang|fr|Lettres, mémoires et négociations particulières du chevalier d'Éon}} in March 1764, disavowing Guerchy and calling him unfit for the job.{{cite web |last1=d'Eon de Beaumont |first1=Charles Geneviève Louis Auguste André Timothée |last2=Guerchy |first2=Claude Louis François Regnier |title=Lettres, mémoires et négociations particuliéres du chevalier d'Éon: Ministre Plénipotentiaire auprès du Roi de la Grande-Bretagne; avec M.M. les Ducs de Praslin, de Nivernois, de Sainte-Foy, & Regnier de Guerchy, Ambassad. Extr. &c.&c.&c. |url=https://archive.org/details/lettresmmoires01eond |date=1 January 1765 |access-date=1 September 2016 |language=fr |via=Internet Archive}} This breach of diplomatic discretion was scandalous to the point of being unheard of, but d'Éon had not yet published everything (the King's secret invasion documents and those relative to the {{lang|fr|Secret du Roi}} were kept back as "insurance"), and so the French government became cautious in its dealings with d'Éon, even when d'Éon sued Guerchy for attempted murder.{{cite book |last=Burrows |first=Simon |title=Blackmail, scandal and revolution: London's French libellistes, 1758–92 |publisher=Manchester University Press |location=Manchester |date=October 2006 |id=9780719065262}} D'Éon did not offer any defence when Guerchy sued for libel, and was declared an outlaw and went into hiding. However, d'Éon secured the sympathy of the British public: the mob jeered Guerchy in public, and threw stones at his residence. D'Éon then wrote a book on public administration, {{lang|fr|Les loisirs du Chevalier d'Éon}}, which was published in thirteen volumes in Amsterdam in 1774.{{sfn|Chisholm|1911}}

Guerchy was recalled to France, and in July 1766 Louis XV granted d'Éon a pension (possibly a pay-off for d'Éon's silence) and a 12,000-livre annuity, but refused a demand for over 100,000 livres to clear d'Éon's extensive debts. D'Éon continued to work as a spy, but lived in political exile in London. D'Éon's possession of the king's secret letters provided protection against further actions, but d'Éon could not return to France in safety. D'Éon became a Freemason in 1768, and was initiated at London's Immortality Lodge.Initiated at London's Immortality Lodge number 376 in 1768 and later member of Les Amis réunis lodge in Tonnerre. Daniel Tougne (2012), Le Chevalier d'Eon, franc-maçon et espionne, Trajectoires.{{cn|reason=Citation was unclear – check publisher and provide edition (if applicable) and ISBN (if there is one)|date=April 2025}}

Life as a woman

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Despite the fact that d'Éon habitually wore a dragoon's uniform, rumours circulated in London that d'Éon was actually a woman. A betting pool was started on the London Stock Exchange about d'Éon's true gender. D'Éon was invited to join, but declined, saying that an examination would be dishonouring, whatever the result. After a year without progress, the wager was abandoned. Following the death of Louis XV in 1774, the {{lang|fr|Secret du Roi}} was abolished, and d'Éon tried to negotiate a return from exile. The writer Pierre de Beaumarchais represented the French government in the negotiations. The resulting twenty-page treaty permitted d'Éon to return to France and retain the ministerial pension, but required that d'Éon turn over the correspondence regarding the {{lang|fr|Secret du Roi}}.

Madame Campan writes in her memoirs: "This eccentric being had long solicited permission to return to France; but it was necessary to find a way of sparing the family he had offended the insult they would see in his return; he was therefore made to resume the costume of that sex to which in France everything is pardoned. The desire to see his native land once more determined him to submit to the condition, but he revenged himself by combining the long train of his gown and the three deep ruffles on his sleeves with the attitude and conversation of a grenadier, which made him very disagreeable company."

The Chevalier d'Éon claimed to have been assigned female at birth, and demanded recognition by the government as such. D'Éon claimed to have been raised as a boy because Louis d'Éon de Beaumont could inherit from his in-laws only if he had a son. King Louis XVI and his court complied with this demand, but required in turn that d'Éon dress appropriately in women's clothing, although d'Éon was allowed to continue to wear the insignia of the Order of Saint-Louis. When the king's offer included funds for a new wardrobe of women's clothes, d'Éon agreed. In 1777, after fourteen months of negotiation, d'Éon returned to France and as punishment was banished to Tonnerre.

Once King Louis XVI's agreement was reached with d'Éon, reports of d'Éon leaving Britain reached the public. These reports sparked legal cases pertaining to unresolved wagers to be filed. This led to Chief Justice William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield, to legally pronounce d'Éon as female under English law.{{Cite journal |last=Morris |first=Marilyn |date=March 2019 |title=The Chevalière d'Eon, Transgender Autobiography and Identity. |url=https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0424.12405 |journal=Gender & History |volume=31 |issue=1 |pages=78–90 |doi=10.1111/1468-0424.12405 |via=Wiley Online Library|url-access=subscription }}

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When France began to help the rebels during the American War of Independence, d'Éon asked to join the French troops in America, but their banishment prevented it. In 1779, d'Éon published a book of memoirs: {{lang|fr|La Vie Militaire, politique, et privée de Mademoiselle d'Éon}}. They were ghostwritten by a friend named La Fortelle and are probably embellished. D'Éon was allowed to return to England in 1785.

The pension that Louis XV had granted was ended by the French Revolution, and d'Éon had to sell personal possessions, including books, jewellery and plate. The family's properties in Tonnerre were confiscated by the revolutionary government. In 1792, d'Éon sent a letter to the French National Assembly offering to lead a division of female soldiers against the Habsburgs, but the offer was rebuffed. D'Éon participated in fencing tournaments until being seriously wounded in Southampton in 1796.{{sfn|Chisholm|1911}} D'Éon's last years were spent with a widow, Mrs. Cole. In 1804, d'Éon was sent to a debtors' prison for five months, and signed a contract for a biography to be written by Thomas William Plummer, which was never published. D'Éon became paralysed following a fall, and spent a final four years bedridden, dying in poverty in London on 21 May 1810 at the age of 81.

The surgeon who examined d'Éon's body attested in their post-mortem certificate that the Chevalier had "male organs in every respect perfectly formed", while at the same time displaying feminine characteristics. A couple of characteristics described in the certificate were "unusual roundness in the formation of limbs", as well as "breast remarkably full".{{cite DNB |last=Laughton |first=John Knox |wstitle=D'Éon de Beaumont, Charles Geneviève Louis Auguste André Timothée |volume=14}}

D'Éon's body was buried in the churchyard of St Pancras Old Church, and d'Éon's remaining possessions were sold by Christie's in 1813. D'Éon's grave is listed on the Burdett-Coutts Memorial there as one of the important graves lost.

Legacy

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A presentation sword belonging to d'Éon and gifted by its owner to George Keate in 1777 is on display at the Royal Armouries in Leeds.{{Cite web |title=The amazing life of Chevalière d'Éon {{!}} Royal Armouries |url=https://royalarmouries.org/objects-and-stories/stories/the-amazing-life-of-chevaliere-deon |access-date=2025-02-26 |website=royalarmouries.org |language=en}} The blade is inscribed in French: 'Donne par la Chevalïere d’Eon à son ancïen Ami Geo: Keate Esquïre. 1777'.{{Cite web |title=Self-Defence gallery {{!}} Royal Armouries |url=https://royalarmouries.org/leeds/galleries-and-displays/self-defence-gallery |access-date=2025-02-26 |website=royalarmouries.org |language=en}} Some of d'Éon's papers are at the Brotherton Library at the University of Leeds, including a number of letters from Keate.{{cite web |title=Papers of Charles Chevalier d'Eon de Beaumont |url=https://library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/470364 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171013065929/https://library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/470364 |archive-date=13 October 2017 |access-date=3 April 2017 |website=Special Collections |publisher=Leeds University Library}}

Some modern scholars have interpreted d'Éon as transgender.{{cite book |last=Brogan |first=Stephen |chapter=A 'Monster of Metamorphosis' |editor1-last=Burrows |editor1-first=Simon |editor2-last=Conlin |editor2-first=Jonathan |editor3-last=Goulbourne |editor3-first=Russell |title=The Chevalier d'Eon and his Worlds: Gender, Espionage and Politics |publisher=A&C Black |year=2011 |page=84 |isbn=978-1441174048}} Havelock Ellis coined the term eonism to describe similar cases of transgender behaviour; it is rarely used now. The Beaumont Society, a long-standing organisation for transgender people, is named after d'Éon.{{cite web|url=https://www.beaumontsociety.org.uk/our-history.html|title=History {{!}} The Beaumont Society|website=www.beaumontsociety.org.uk|language=en-US|access-date=2017-02-13|archive-date=2 April 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190402015110/https://www.beaumontsociety.org.uk/our-history.html|url-status=live}}

In 2012, a 1792 painting (shown above) by Thomas Stewart was identified as a portrait of d'Éon,{{cite web |last=Bryner |first=Jeanna |title=Earliest Painting of Transvestite Uncovered |url=http://www.livescience.com/19807-earliest-transvestite-portrait-chevalier-deon.html |url-status=live |publisher=Live Science |date=19 April 2012 |access-date=20 April 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150206125510/http://www.livescience.com/19807-earliest-transvestite-portrait-chevalier-deon.html |archive-date=6 February 2015}} and was purchased by the National Portrait Gallery, London.{{cite news |last=Brown |first=Mark |title=Portrait mistaken for 18th-century lady is early painting of transvestite |url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2012/jun/06/portrait-18th-century-early-transvestite |url-status=live |work=The Guardian |date=6 June 2012 |access-date=22 September 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150112143031/http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2012/jun/06/portrait-18th-century-early-transvestite |archive-date=12 January 2015}}

The Burdett-Coutts Memorial at St Pancras Gardens in London commemorates d'Éon as well as other people; in 2016 Historic England upgraded it to a Grade II* listed structure.{{cite web |title='Queer history' landmarks celebrated by Historic England |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-37438800 |url-status=live |publisher=BBC News |date=23 September 2016 |access-date=15 April 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180110021425/http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-37438800 |archive-date=10 January 2018}}

=Cultural depictions=

The Chevalier d'Éon has appeared as a character in numerous fictional works and music.

In the popular pop song "{{lang|la|italic=no|Sans contrefaçon}}" by French artist Mylène Farmer, the Chevalier d'Éon is alluded to by the singer in lyrics describing the singer putting a handkerchief in her trousers to resemble a man.
The Chevalière d'Eon, by Charles Dupeuty and the Baron de Maldigny (1837), Théâtre du VaudevilleThe Chevalier d'Eon and Other Short Farces from the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century French Theatre, By Frank J. Morlock
The Chevalier d'Eon, a comedy in three acts by Dumanoir and Jean-François Bayard (1837), Théâtre des VariétésSidney Jackson Jowers, Theatrical Costume, Masks, Make-up and Wigs: A Bibliography and Iconography, by p. 314{{year missing|date=April 2025}}
{{lang|fr|Le chevalier d'Eon}}, an {{lang|fr|opéra comique}} in four acts by {{ill|Rodolphe Berger|fr|Rodolphe Berger}}, libretto by Armand Silvestre and Henri Cain (1908), Théâtre de la Porte Saint-Martin; Anne Dancrey created the title role{{cite book|title=Le Guide Musical: Revue Internationale de la Musique Et de Theâtres Lyriques|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bOgEAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA330|year=1908|page=330|access-date=29 October 2016|archive-date=2 January 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200102083837/https://books.google.com/books?id=bOgEAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA330|url-status=live}}{{cite web |url=http://data.bnf.fr/39458928/le_chevalier_d_eon_spectacle_1908/ |title=Le chevalier d'Eon - Spectacle - 1908 |language=fr |publisher=National Library of France |access-date=2016-09-23 |archive-date=25 October 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161025105731/http://data.bnf.fr/39458928/le_chevalier_d_eon_spectacle_1908/ |url-status=live }}
Spy of Madame Pompadour (1928), film
{{lang|fr|Le secret du Chevalier d'Éon}} (1959), a film loosely based on the life of the Chevalier that portrays d'Éon as a woman masquerading as a man
By Plume and Sword ({{lang|ru|Пером и шпагой}}), a novel by the Soviet writer Valentin Pikul, written in 1963 and first published in 1972, based on d'Éon's career in Russia
Beaumarchais (1996), a film depicting episodes in the life of Pierre de Beaumarchais, including negotiations with d'Éon in 1774 over the return of correspondence regarding the {{lang|fr|Secret du Roi}}
{{lang|fr|Le Chevalier D'Eon}} (2006), an anime series loosely based on the Chevalier d'Éon{{Citation needed|date=June 2021}}
The Sword of the Chevalier, a 2017 episode of the Doctor Who audio series The Tenth Doctor Adventures, which sees the Chevalier meeting the Tenth Doctor (David Tennant) and Rose Tyler (Billie Piper) and assisting them in thwarting alien slavers who intend to destroy Earth to drive up the market price of their captives{{Cite episode|title=Sword of the Chevalier |series=Doctor Who: The Tenth Doctor Adventures |url=https://www.bigfinish.com/releases/v/doctor-who-sword-of-the-chevalier-1660|access-date=2021-07-01|people=Big Finish |archive-date=9 July 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210709181622/https://www.bigfinish.com/releases/v/doctor-who-sword-of-the-chevalier-1660|url-status=live}}{{cite AV media|last=Adams|first=Guy|title=The Sword of the Chevalier|date=2017|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1081424575 |publisher=Big Finish Productions |others=Nicholas Briggs, David Tennant, Billie Piper, Nickolas Grace, Tam Williams, Mark Elstob|place=[Maidenhead, Berkshire, England]|isbn=978-1-78703-371-9|oclc=1081424575|access-date=2021-07-01}}{{Cite web|date=2017-11-28|title=Doctor Who: The Tenth Doctor Adventures Volume 2 review – David Tennant and Billie Piper return!|url=https://cultbox.co.uk/news/headlines/doctor-who-the-tenth-doctor-adventures-volume-2-review-david-tennant-and-billie-piper-return |first1= Ian |last1=McArdell |access-date=2021-07-01|website=CultBox|language=en-US|archive-date=9 July 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210709181605/https://cultbox.co.uk/news/headlines/doctor-who-the-tenth-doctor-adventures-volume-2-review-david-tennant-and-billie-piper-return|url-status=live}}
The Chevalier d'Éon appears as an unplayable character that gives out side-quests in the game Assassin's Creed: Unity.{{Cite web|url = https://lgbtqgamearchive.com/2018/06/01/chevalier-deon-in-assassins-creed-unity/|title = Chevalier d'Éon in Assassin's Creed Unity|date = June 1, 2018 |website=LGBTQ Video Game Archive |access-date = 24 August 2021|archive-date = 24 August 2021|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210824082801/https://lgbtqgamearchive.com/2018/06/01/chevalier-deon-in-assassins-creed-unity/|url-status = live}}
D'Eon appears as an agent in the game Napoleon: Total War.
In "History of a French Louse; or The Spy of a New Species, in France and England", a chapter of British it-Narratives 1750–1830 (2012),{{verify inline|reason=It's unclear what exactly the reference here is. Presumably a chapter?|date=April 2025}} d'Éon is portrayed as a nameless character which a louse inhabits for a period of time.{{Cite book |last=Heather |first=Keenleyside |title=British It-Narratives, 1750–1830 |publisher=Pickering & Chatto |year=2012 |isbn=9781848931206 |location=London |pages=39–63}}
The Chevalier d'Éon: The 18th Century Transgender Spy (2022), a biographical short documentary directed by Jono Namara for BBC Worldwide{{Cite web |title=The Chevalier d'Éon: The 18th Century transgender spy |url=https://www.bbc.com/reel/video/p0bzwxqy/the-chevalier-d-on-the-18th-century-transgender-spy |access-date=2022-04-24 |website=BBC Reel |date=7 April 2022 |language=en}}
Innocent (2013–2015), a manga series by Shin'ichi Sakamoto, briefly depicts d'Éon as a side character.Issue 8 (p.193–197, 203, 209, 216–220){{fcn|date=April 2025}}
Fate/Grand Order depicts d'Éon as a character in a video game, voiced by Chiwa Saitō.
The mobile game Time Princess includes d'Éon as a companion in the story "Queen Marie".
The miniseries Franklin (2024) depicts d'Éon as a character who meets Benjamin Franklin in Paris.

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British Museum, [https://www.britishmuseum.org/system_pages/beta_collection_introduction/beta_collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=3036343&partId=1&searchText=Chevalier%20D%27Eon Le Chevalier d'Eon, 1764],{{dead link |date=October 2024}} portrait
British Museum, [https://archive.today/20130414111130/http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/search_the_collection_database/search_object_details.aspx?partid=1&objectid=3251680 Mademoiselle La Chevaliere D'Eon de Beaumont],{{dead link |date=October 2024}} portrait
British Museum, [https://www.britishmuseum.org/explore/highlights/highlight_objects/pd/g/george_dance,_chevalier_deon.aspx George Dance, Chevalier D'Eon, Graphite with watercolour, bodycolour and red stump, England, 1793], {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151018212557/http://www.britishmuseum.org/explore/highlights/highlight_objects/pd/g/george_dance,_chevalier_deon.aspx |date=18 October 2015 }} portrait and biography.
British Museum, [https://www.britishmuseum.org/system_pages/beta_collection_introduction/beta_collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=1448555&partId=1&searchText=D%27Eon%20de%20Beaumont Chevalière d'Eon],{{dead link |date=October 2024}} satire
British Museum, [https://www.britishmuseum.org/system_pages/beta_collection_introduction/beta_collection_search_results.aspx?people=101972&peoA=101972-1-7 Additional holdings]{{dead link |date=October 2024}}
{{Books and Writers |id=deon |name=Charles d'Eon de Beaumont (1728–1810)}}
The Beaumont Society, [https://web.archive.org/web/20121203095205/http://www.beaumontsociety.org.uk/about_us/Public%20information/Biography.pdf Charles-Genevieve Deon De Beaumont] (archived)
National Portrait Gallery: [https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw217942/Chevalier-dEon Portrait by Thomas Stewart], [https://www.npg.org.uk/research/new-research-on-the-collection/the-chevalier-deon.php The Chevalier d'Eon]
[https://www.historytoday.com/archive/strange-case-chevalier-d%E2%80%99eon The Strange Case of the Chevalier d'Eon], History Today Volume 60, Issue 4, 2010
[https://web.archive.org/web/20130927132529/http://www.gendercentre.org.au/resources/polare-archive/archived-articles/famous-trannies-in-early-modern-times.htm Famous Trannies in Early Modern Times]