Mlle la Chevaliere d'Eon de Beaumont fencing at Carlton House, 9th April 1787 Finish:none Inscribed 'Thomas Phillips Esqr

Inscribed 'Thomas Phillips Esqr

the North Island Adzebill

A preliminary balloon of this type was flown at the Champ de Mars in Paris

One of four images

16th January 1986

Mlle la Chevaliere d'Eon de Beaumont fencing at Carlton House, 9th April 1787 Finish:none Inscribed 'Thomas Phillips Esqr'Mlle la Chevaliere d'Eon de Beaumont fencing at Carlton House, 9th April 1787.' The Chevalier d'Eon (1728 1810) having a swordfight with Monsieur de Saint George. Charles Genevieve Louis Auguste Andre Timothee Eon de Beaumont lived the first half of his life as a man and the second half as a woman. Illustration from Social Caricature in the Eighteenth Century With over two hundred illustrations by George Paston [pseudonym of Emily Morse Symonds],