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hasmashdoneanythingwrong · 1 year ago
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iamthemaestro · 1 year ago
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obviously I have mixed feelings about Chevalier d’Eon and their views on religion but hm. the concept of transitioning as an act of divinity. there’s something there even if it’s not what d’Eon thinks it is
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kiwikipedia · 2 years ago
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I’d like an event where d’Eon’s role isn’t “cross dressing maid”
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radroller · 1 year ago
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So strange that this is my first time seeing Chevalier d’Eon’s NP. First time using them in a fight that matters come to think of it, i like how they NP and the opponent’s like
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“Flowers?”
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“DAHHHHHH FUCK”
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lulu-cat-princess · 11 months ago
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Kitty could have met the Chevalier d'Éon as Éon spent some time in London during her life. Chevalier d'Éon was AMAB. Kitty could have met d'Éon before transitioning to female ca 1777 or afterwards when they were openly living as a woman.
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aliitvodeson · 1 year ago
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She literally 👏 petitioned 👏 to be 👏 recognized 👏 as a 👏 woman 👏
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National Portrait Gallery this is bad history. We know how d'Eon chose to describe her gender during her lifetime. Understanding queer history involves understanding how queer people lived historically and understood themselves historically. It doesn't matter what pronouns d'Eon may have chosen had she lived today it matters what pronouns she used in her lifetime. You are placing modern language on a historical figure when we know what language she used historically.
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whalehouse1 · 1 year ago
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davidgrandorder · 2 years ago
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Okay but literally Chevaliers entire skill set and Noble Phantasm is based around gender ambiguity and androgynous beauty. They literally non-binary swagged so hard it made them a heroic spirit.
Transfem icon, nonbinary icon, d’Eon’s swag is unparalleled…
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dwimpossblog · 27 days ago
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The Doctor and Rose meet the Chevalier d'Eon and fight the Consortium of the Obsidian Asp in today's Throwback Thursday post!
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hasmephydoneanythingwrong · 8 months ago
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Wait, what? The game railroads you into misgendering and deadnaming Caeneus the entire time? It’s not even like with d’Eon where in the Interlude you can choose to say you see Chevalier as a woman, which would line up with history strongly implying (if not saying outright, but I don’t have all the details) that she’s a trans woman?
Eff the devs and eff the translators for not trying to fix that like how they toned down Agartha.
Happy to see sugitani in traum but still annoyed what they did with him
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pretentious-art-love · 1 month ago
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Book Reviews #24 - Royal Spy; The Strange Case Of The Chevalier D'Eon By Edna Nixon
I wanted to read a book of this because I got really interested in the story, you know, a documented case of a transgender person in the 17th century! It seems there is so much mystery behind the whole mater and countless of books and essays have been done about it, but at the end of the day it surprised me how little of a mystery there is in the whole thing. This book has some unnecessarily decorative language that can get a bit dense to understand for someone with attention span issues and English second language quirks like me, but it gives a summary of Deon’s life and even changes pronouns when the event happens. It discusses a bit the transgender part in a chapter but I skipped that because I don’t really care what any of these writers think about the gender thing, remember the Review #22 of that book by Gary Kates? It was so stupid that I dropped it, thankfully, this book sticks more to the facts, it also starts from the beginning rather than beginning the story halfway through the events.
First, let’s get the elephant out of the room, we know a lot more about gender now, right? We know that a lot of people who suffer dysphoria transition, and we call them transgender, but we also know there is people who do not experience dysphoria with their birth gender still experience gender euphoria with a gender they were not assigned at birth too so they transition, there is gender fluid people and people who might feel fine either way so when they get asked what they would do if they got their sex changed for a day they just say “well just go to work because I don’t want to get fired.” The fact for 200 years people did thousands of essays because people never were open enough to say that there is a fairly big gender fluidity in the general population its ridiculous, its like the fact Dracula got popular because knew that the fact of being attacked by a vampire was a metaphor for sexual assault and nobody could say anything because of censorship. In any case, for you and me, the average transgender person, the fact that D’Eon was fairly fluid will be the less interesting part of the story overall, believe me.
Now, who was D’Eon? I’ll tell you who he was (I’ll be switching between pronouns in the review because it feels right) he was a proud and stubborn mule. Not ashamed of anything, at the beginning of his life D’Eon was looking for connections with noble families, trying to find a way into the high circles and secure her future. She was also highly charismatic and full of wit, someone who wasn’t afraid to say what she thought. Long story short, she goes up the ranks and works as a spy and a little time as a soldier, yada yada yada, if you want the details, read the book, I don’t want to feel I am doing a summary or whatever.
There was this guy called Guerchy, and he fought a lot with D’Eon, why? I am not even sure why, and it doesn’t seem like it matters anyway, it was a lot of little things instead of a big one, what I feel is that D’Eon was annoyed that such an idiot was in an official spot and that he had to follow his orders, you know, bureaucracy bullshit, and the quarrel reached a lot of parts in Europe because it was a bit ridiculous what was going on. Then, next thing you know is that a lady that was in one of the missions of D’Eon in Russia where he dressed as a woman went to France and swore for her life that he was a woman, then there were bets and gambling around the whole thing and you know, things got out of control, imagine having a spy with this much attention in the whole continent, ridiculous, I tell you. Guerchy somehow lost the quarrel but died very soon after that and his family gained a bit of a grudge. D’Eon lost some of the rapport she had gotten with the king (who was a bit of a pushover back then too), and even threatened to sell some of the papers she had with her about her spy operations when she saw her life was in danger, or her debts were piling up and she wasn’t getting the money she needed (D’Eon liked to be in parties a lot, spend a lot, the whole thing, but hey, if it’s for spy matters it counts as a business expense, right?) and at the end, the situation had spiraled out a bit.
Tell me, as a king, what would you do? If you had this really loud and obnoxious worker who was in everybody’s mouth, how would you deal with him? You could kill him, sure, and there was a point when someone who was spreading libel against her was offered a pardon if he carried out the murder, but he didn’t accept so that plan was discarded. Besides killing him has it's risks, with him dead who knows where his documents will end! And also, what rumours will spread around if he suddenly dies?! No no, such thing might become too risky if not careful. See, here the book mentions that the point of crossroads comes when the secretary of the ambassador of the spy group of the emissary of the worker of the guy of the king or whatever asked directly D’Eon if he was a man or a woman and then she said she was a woman, but to me it feels like the story is incomplete, to me it feels that they decided it was better to present D’Eon as a woman to the world to reduce the possibility of having the rumor reach Russian ears and destitute D’Eon of all his power and privileges as a man, or heck, we don't even need the russians to make up a reason, telling him to dress as a woman is the perfect answer to turn the nature of the rumours around him on their head without any blood and finally silence such a pesky agent. They either didn’t keep the record of the thing or destroyed it all, I mean, we already saw that he can’t be trusted with official documents, right?
This is the point that I felt the most connection with D’Eon, I felt such vivid and alive feelings from the story. D’Eon was a fervid subject of the king, and I felt it, the tireless and endless devotion, he became more and more errant and then the french king took him out his pension. It was so fascinating to see, so intense, I felt the disillusion he felt, his loyalty to the king and audacity as a spy was always tested when he was losing his patience with the profession he dedicated his life to, this is the kind of disillusionment that can make you go hog wild with your coworker. When you realize that devotion is not enough to guarantee your future or your life, you feel everything is fake, I felt his own tiredness on my own veins. The King thought that he was just mad, and he was mad, but it was out of love, not anything else! D’Eon was always loyal, he was a stubborn mule and maybe too loud for his own good, but he was loyal, the king just couldn't see that.
In any case, D’Eon was ordered to dress as female and the cover story of she being raised male because her dad wanted a son came up, then her king died and his grand son replaced him. The bets and all that gambling related to her gender in England got too dangerous so she left back to France, as a woman. But you know that a lot of people didn’t believe it, right? Come on, it was the 17th century, no estrogen, no fancy pansy, people commented she looked more like a man, the people who lived in his home town never believed a single word, "but hey, if the king said she is a woman, who am I to say no in such a petty affair?" Do you want to know how you can get a social gender transition in the 17th century? You piss off your king and threaten him to think that a war between could begin unless everyone else affirms that you are female, it’s all about controlling loose ends at the end of the day, with any other scenario at least a body inspection would have been made.
Now, now, D’Eon was fluid enough to live as a female, but she was still a solider at heart, she was frustrated a lot of the time, she felt shame and even repugnance at the whole affair when she had to present as female the first time, and she still kept asking to be reinstated as a soldier to the court countless of times, but the court, and it seems the Guerchy family too, pushed to have her rather "retired" out of resentment. If she spent in a old home in poverty it wasn’t because she was inspired by women and the world of Christianity as some authors liked to think (fuck you, Gary). And yes, yes, after the French revolution the new king died, she could have gone back, in theory, to dress as a man to gain a live hood, so why didn’t she do it? Why? She could have turned back the page so easily! It must have been because [10000 essays after wards] yadda yadda, on and there is also an anime with a "ghost sister sometimes possessing D'Eon dynamic" because of course there is.
Could have really been that easy? To go back to present as a man after a gender transition? Think about it, it was the 17th century, could you really go back to live as a man publicly when you spend so many years as a woman? After so many connections were made? After people helped you when you were presenting as a woman? Again, D’Eon was proud and stubborn. Deon might have been fairly gender fluid, but I feel that this kind of change is not something that you could turn back, people ask "really? Even after the king died and her masters were gone?" I think that it was exactly because of that reason, that she couldn’t turn back. Seriously, go back?
As if her identity, as if that part of her who as a woman was a lie.
"Hey everyone I was just joking with y'all! See, Im actually an spy and umm.. all those moments? Lies, oh come on I'm still a man like you, yes I crossdressed for years but... I mean you get me guys? Hey, guys!"
People ignore this, the seriousness of the situation and how hard it would be for her to go back socially. Also, since it makes the story a lot sadder, people don't pay attention to that, people don't want a sad story after all, they want something cool to tell. That added up with the lack of understanding of gender fluidity in D'Eon and in general and we get a lot of yapping between historians.
There was also the opportunity of fight the French revolution with the aristocrats to gain it back (that’s a definitive no) or fight it with the other side, the peasants who wanted a more normal, just country (that’s a possible no, they could label you as an aristocrat and hell could turn loose) it seems she was going to leave to France and fight at some point but it is likely that this, age, or her debtors in England didn’t let her leave, come on, are you going to leave a second time the country to fight a war? I wouldn’t let her go to escape to her possible death and leave her debts unpaid, because again, D’Eon liked to splurge a lot. Besides, it would be to fight against the people who knew her dear king Louis XV, why for go against his memory when he is already dead? It was something that to me, felt irreversible. A gender change like that, it is not as simple as it seems. Not in those times, and not when both of his sides were as true and vivid as each other.
At the end of the day, debts debts debts, ending in poverty, end of the story. At least there was a widow she made friends with and she never told the truth of, it seems Cole got shocked when she found out, and I feel a little bad about that, but I don’t know, the connection they both had felt as essential and as honest as possible, it never felt necessary to tell her about a detail like that, because their relationship felt genuine, it was, for all that time.
I felt a deep connection to the story of her life, not even because of the trans part, but because I am also a stubborn idiot who have caused a lot of drama and closed a lot of doors because of that, I have felt it too, I have felt it. This book in a way felt like a repetition of history more than anything. I like to think in times like this in concepts like reincarnation and what would it be like if they were real. If Deon was one of my past lives, I would like to say that… I failed, I failed because I was stubborn, stubborn and full of pride, I closed many doors that shouldn't have closed to me because of silly things, but I was also free, free enough to be myself, this is not a success that erases my failure as a soldier, but the other side of the coin in my existence, I failed on the fight I took, but I was also so free that I managed a social gender transition in the 17th century, I was free enough for that, and prideful and stubborn enough for that. If that doesn't say enough about my spirit, which countless essays and stories have been made from, I don't know what else could.
There are still a lot of unanswered questions for me. There are parts of the book that are like “and D’Eon found out that she could get the same air of stupidity in France or in Tonerre, but back in Tonerre she felt lonely and without purpose” and I’m like… what? I bet that events like this could be summarized better, I know they are events that happen not because of a single event but more because of different and varied philosophical reasons, but still, it leaves stuff about her character in the dark. The flowery language was a bit also a bit frustrating at times, but well, the book did its job for what it’s worth. With all the wondering and silliness people put into this topic, I really, really appreciate this writer putting the speculation into a minimum. And the change of pronouns was also a detail that went a long long way. It is also true that if I learned French, I could get into the crux of the matter rather than what historians interpret and tell me second hand, I might add a new book of D’Eon down the line to my reading schedule to retake this topic, but as for now this feels as much as closed, and something I would like to move on from. Let people wonder whatever they want about D'Eon's life, at the end of the day we all know that what they are trying to find out is how they can become just as free.
7/10.
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awesomehistoryloverblog · 2 months ago
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Chevalier d'Eon, the First Trans Aristocrat
Read the latest LOST IN HISTORY post on the Chevalier d'Eon
The French Chevalier d’Eon as a woman When the Chevalier d’Eon left France in 1762, he was a diplomat, a spy, a Dragoon captain, and a man. When she returned in 1777, at the age of 49, she was a celebrity, a writer, a fencer, and a woman—by declaration by the government of France. Chevalier d’Eon was born Charles d’Eon de Beaumont, and in mid-life changed genders to a woman, Charlotte. d’Eon’s…
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lucythornwalter · 5 months ago
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any anon hate you get fir transfem achilles can fuck off its cool as shit like-
Oh I fully agree it’s cool as shit!! but it’s a messy and complicated and nuanced kind of take, because it delves into how gender roles and gender norms shape someone’s perception of themself (the things that Achilles associates with womanhood and desires as part of womanhood are Normal Man Things now, like living with and being in a romantic relationship with a man as an adult and being the passive partner in sex well into adulthood) and also how failure to receive any adequate support or help or understanding can create dysfunction and violence (his treatment of Briseis and his misogyny can in this light be read as stemming from his complicated feelings toward womanhood) and also that a she/her Achilles would not necessarily be feminine by either our or Greek standards (consider the Chevalier d’Eon and how after her transition she wanted to be able to wear her military uniform and act as a soldier and be respected as a woman who fights for her country)
but like. I do actually think that “Achilles has a complicated relationship with gender and with womanhood because women have access to things he wants to do and wants to be, and being a woman would also enable Patroclus to be the man he wants to be” is a reading with some legs.
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androgynealienfemme · 2 years ago
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“A Black Chevalier D’eon” - pre. 1900
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valkyries-things · 11 months ago
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CHEVALIER D’EON // SPY
“They were a French diplomat, spy and soldier who, for thirty-three years from 1777 to 1810 lived as a woman but was raised male for inheritance purposes. The term ‘eonism’ is named for the Chevalier. They are now thought to have been intersex.”
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amphibious-thing · 4 days ago
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The National Archives (UK) are doing an online talk about d'Eon: The Chevalier d’Eon in the English Law Courts. The description avoids gendered pronouns and uses the masculine version of her title so be aware of that. That being said the topic is very interesting!
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