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CHEVALIERE d'ÉON: Two works and a manuscript poem brought together by Abbé Pascal, with a paperback booklet.

INTERESTING REUNION BY THE LIBRARIAN OF THE DUKE OF PENTHIÈVRE, ABBÉ PASCAL who, as on many works from his collection, has noted on the endpapers and margins extracts to illuminate the reading: " it should be remembered that Mr de Beaumarchais was asked to withdraw from Déon the letters of the late King with whom he was in secret correspondence at the stormiest time of his quarrel with Mr le Comte de Guerchy, and that to achieve this Mr de Beaumarchais had in his mission a letter from Crédisbeau: a blow more considerable than the sum at which he agreed with Mlle Déon to hand over the correspondence with Louis XV - see the last line of page 57."

- Pieces relatives aux Démêlés entre mademoiselle d'Eon de Beaumont, Chevalier de l'ordre Royal & Militaire de St Louis & Ministre Plénipotentiaire de France, &c. &c. &c. and Sieur Caron dit de Beaumarchais &c. &c. &c.
Sans-lieu, 1778. title, table, 65 pp.

- Peyraud de Beaussol (under the pseudonym of M. de La Fortelle)
The military, political and private life of demoiselle Charles-Geneviève-Louise-Auguste-Andrée-Thimothée Éon or d'Éon de Beaumont
Paris, Lambert, Onfroi, Valade, Esprit, 1779. Frontispiece and 176 pp.

- Abbé Pascal has copied the "Song to the tune of La Bequille du père Barnabas- 1778"A rare, bawdy account of the questions raised by the Chevalier d'Éon about gender in his day. It is also worth noting the surprisingly tolerant conclusion: Whether he's a boy or a girl / He's a great character / Whose name / Will live on from age to age:

From Chevalier Déon
Sex is a mystery
He is said to be a boy
However, England
Recognises him for daughter
And claims that he didn't
crutch track
From Father Barnabas

He was once a boy
Very brave captain
For a yes for a no
Everyone says they draw
what a misfortune if he's a girl
what he wouldn't do
If he had the Crutch
From Father Barnabas

There were Freemasons
a very zealous colleague
Learned from their lesson
Of the most secret mystery
if he's a girl
no more good will receive
the Bequille has not been seen
From Father Barnabas

It is said that
orders from the ministry
it was given the name
De pleinipotentiaire
Ha parbleu sił est fille
everyone will offer
The famous Bequille
From Father Barnabas

For his amusements
He wrote twenty volumes
Affecting the Law of Nations
Whose custom he knows
As a skilled lawyer
He is not unaware
The right to a crutch
From Father Barnabas

Whether boy or girl
He's a great character
Whose name we shall see
Surviving from age to age
But if he is a girl
It will not fail
Finding the Crutch
of Father Barnabas".

The first Italian translation of the previous print is enclosed, La vita militare, politica e privata della Signora D'Eon, nata in Sciampagna l'anno MDCCXXVIII, O sia, Memorie interessanti del Cavalier D'Eon.
Venize, Si vende alla libreria del Colombani in Merceria, di San Salvatore, 1779. Paperback.

From the library of Abbé Pascal (ex-libris).