{"id":582,"date":"1777-10-01T00:06:00","date_gmt":"1777-10-01T00:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/superqueerhistory.com\/?p=582"},"modified":"2023-07-08T23:11:23","modified_gmt":"2023-07-08T23:11:23","slug":"mademoiselle-de-beaumont-or-the-chevalier-deon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/superqueerhistory.com\/mademoiselle-de-beaumont-or-the-chevalier-deon\/","title":{"rendered":"Mademoiselle de Beaumont or The Chevalier D’Eon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This is a caricature showing d’Eon de Beaumont is half male and half female attire. This was a common joke at the time, and there are actually records of bets made as to which sex d’Eon actually was.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The full caption reads: Mademoiselle de Beaumont or The Chevalier D’Eon Female minister plenipo. Capt. of Dragoons &c. &c.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From the London Magazine, xlvi. 443. Published Oct 1, 1777.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Retrieved from The Library of Congress<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This is a caricature showing d’Eon de Beaumont is half male and half female attire. This was a common joke at the time, and there are actually records of bets….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":583,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[33,13],"class_list":["post-582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-deon-de-beaumont","tag-magazine","tag-primary-source"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/superqueerhistory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582"}],"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=582"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/superqueerhistory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":584,"href":"https:\/\/superqueerhistory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582\/revisions\/584"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/superqueerhistory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/superqueerhistory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/superqueerhistory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/superqueerhistory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}