Famous Impostors

Bram Stoker spent his last years collecting history's great frauds: pretenders to thrones, alchemists and witch-finders, the Tichborne Claimant — and the strange Cotswold legend that Queen Elizabeth was really a boy.

Chevalier D'Eon

6 cases in this part of Famous Impostors.

Chevalier D'Eon

IN all the range of doubtful personalities there is hardly any one whom convention has treated worse than it has the individual known in…

Chevalier D'Eon: France

Charles-Genevieve - Louis-Auguste-Andre Timothée d'Eon de Beaumont was born in 1728 in Tonnerre in Yonne, a department of France in the old…

Chevalier D'Eon: Court

The Court had wind of that direct correspondence with his majesty and therewith things were so managed that the diplomatist got into…

Chevalier D'Eon: D'Eon

D'Eon took legal steps to punish the attempt; but every form of pressure was used to keep the case out of Court. An attempt was made to get…

Chevalier D'Eon: England

During this time one of the means employed with success by his enemies to injure the reputation of d'Eon, was to point out that he had…

Chevalier D'Eon: November

In an issue of the same paper 9th November, of the same year, it is mentioned that the Rt. Hon.

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