{"id":562,"date":"2001-01-01T01:20:00","date_gmt":"2001-01-01T01:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/superqueerhistory.com\/?p=562"},"modified":"2023-07-08T22:56:27","modified_gmt":"2023-07-08T22:56:27","slug":"monsieur-deon-is-a-woman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/superqueerhistory.com\/monsieur-deon-is-a-woman\/","title":{"rendered":"Monsieur d&#8217;Eon Is a Woman"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>a tale of political intrigue and sexual masquerade<br>by Kates, Gary<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Published 2001<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The Chevalier Charles-Genevi\u00e8ve-Louise-Auguste-Andr\u00e9-Thimoth\u00e9e d&#8217;Eon, after a distinguished career as a soldier, diplomat, and secret agent for the Government of King Louis XV of France, told the world that he was a woman who had disguised herself as a man. But d&#8217;Eon was lying. In fact he was a man pretending to be a woman who was now admitting to be a man. Why he did that and what happened to him as a result are the main dishes on Mr. Kates&#8217;s rich banquet table.&#8221; &#8212; Richard Bernstein, New York Times, reviewing Monsieur d&#8217;Eon Is a Woman by Gary Kates<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/414u296\">Purchase from Amazon<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/monsieurdeoniswo0000kate_q4d4\">Checkout for 1 hour at Internet Archive<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"140\" height=\"210\" src=\"https:\/\/superqueerhistory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/836481151_140.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-563\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>a tale of political intrigue and sexual masqueradeby Kates, Gary Published 2001 &#8220;The Chevalier Charles-Genevi\u00e8ve-Louise-Auguste-Andr\u00e9-Thimoth\u00e9e d&#8217;Eon, after a distinguished career as a soldier, diplomat, and secret agent for the Government&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":563,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[21],"class_list":["post-562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-deon-de-beaumont","tag-book"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/superqueerhistory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/superqueerhistory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/superqueerhistory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/superqueerhistory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/superqueerhistory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=562"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/superqueerhistory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":609,"href":"https:\/\/superqueerhistory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562\/revisions\/609"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/superqueerhistory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/superqueerhistory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/superqueerhistory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/superqueerhistory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}