Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Chevalier d'Eon NPG D48166

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Mackenzie, published by Thomas Hurst

The Chevalier d'Eon was a French soldier, diplomat, spy and fencing demonstrator who lived as a woman from 1777. D'Eon first came to London in 1763 to negotiate the end of the Seven Years War. Rumours that d'Eon was a woman in disguise were encouraged by d'Eon and widely accepted. D'Eon used secret letters to blackmail the French king, Louis XVI, and was paid an income from 1777 on the condition that d'Eon wore women's clothes. From 1785, d'Eon achieved fame in Britain as... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.