#Chevaliere

[gerardbillet]

Pharaon des deux Terres : Triade d’Osorkon, Vase decore de figures en relief a bec verseur en tete de bovidé,# Statuette de la déesse Bastet au nom du roi Piankhy, Scarabee au nom du Fils-de-Re Atlanetsa, Amon de Napata a l’intérieur de la Montagne -Pure, Chevalière représentant Amon assis a l’intérieur de la Montagne Pure, Statue de babouin en adoration. #museedulouvre #pharaondesdeuxterres #triadedosorkon #osiris #horus #isis #bovidé #deessebastet #piankhy #scarabée #amon #napata #montagnepure #chevaliere #amonassis #babouin #instapıc #photooftheday📷 #parismaville🙏 (at Musée du Louvre, Paris) https://www.instagram.com/p/CfXRO3grVTr/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[amphibious-thing]

So lets talk about Franklin. Overall I liked it. But it wasn't particularly historically accurate. This is hardly an issue that's unique to Franklin, it's an issue with the genre in general. It's impossible to take people's real lives, with all their complexity, and compress them into a entertaining, well paced TV show while also being completely historically accurate. Things inevitably get left out, timelines get muddled, a dash of creative license can get out of hand all to quickly. Straight off the bat Franklin lets us know it's not too concerned with historical accuracy by just completely leaving Silas Deane out.

That considered I liked it. I really enjoyed Romain Brau's performance. The moment when everyone is laughing at d'Eon in the theatre and it cuts to a close up of her face, you can see her pain, but also her resolve, her strength.

We see this strength again in the conversation between her and Franklin.

However. They got her name wrong. I know pretty much everyone deadnames d'Eon but really?!? It doesn't make sense in the narrative at all. D'Eon is being introduced as a woman why would her deadname be used in this scenario. Just in case you haven't heard me say it a thousand times, d'Eon's name was Charlotte-Geneviève-Louise-Auguste-André-Timothée d’Eon de Beaumont, or Geneviève d'Eon for short.

The timeline also seems confused. In one scene Temple makes a bet on d'Eon's sex but historically these bets had pretty much stopped after d'Eon was declared a woman in both England and France. There had been a lot of speculation over her sex in the past but by the time she returned to France there seemed to be an answer; d'Eon was a woman who had disguised herself as a man. While there were certainly people who made fun of d'Eon, they made fun of her under the belief that she, to put it bluntly, had a vagina. In Franklin the jokes made at her expense rely on the insinuation that she had a penis and the satirical cartoon of d'Eon and Franklin having sex depicts her with a penis.

Historically there were rumors that d'Eon and Franklin were lovers but these rumors were based on the widely held belief that d'Eon was a woman. And woman was understood in a very cisnormative way.

The pamphlet History of a French Louse (published in French and later translated into English) follows the story of a louse who finds himself on d'Eon. The louse describes d'Eon as "a woman whose manners were so absurd, so masculine, and unsuitable to her sex". The louse is still residing on d’Eon when she goes to dine at Franklin’s place:

My heroine [d’Eon] left her seat to place herself close to the master of the house [Franklin], to whom she sung some verses of her own composing, which I should not have thought excellent but for that circumstance; however they were greatly applauded. I plainly observed his excellency express his gratitude to his Apollo by an ardent kiss, but without quitting his spectacles; at the same time he whispered in her ear, Shall it be this evening, my goddess?

While the pamphlet acknowledges that d'Eon had "appeared in the habit of a man, and wore the cross of St. Louis" it states that "she was a woman". Certainly History of a French Louse is mocking d'Eon and Franklin but the author clearly believed that d'Eon was woman.

Oh also they misgendered her in the credits!

[cedarboots]

argh

[usergreenpixel]

So, I just spotted a post on Tumblr about Alexandr Andreevich Alexandrov (Nadezhda Durova) and remembered that I had made the mistake of misgendering the man in the above post.

Of course, it wasn’t done maliciously, but I do need to acknowledge that mistake. I’m not perfect.

I’m a Russian and my country is extra dismissive and/or oblivious about queer people in the present, let alone in history, so Alexandrov’s story for us is presented more like a Russian Mulan than a trans man, even though clearly Alexandrov lived under his male identity and went by male pronouns.

I’m truly sorry for this mistake and I’m going to correct the tidbit mentioning Alexandrov to reflect his actual pronouns.

P. S. I also referred to Chevaliére d’Éon with he/him pronouns in my Banner of the Maid review, even though she went by Genevieve and used she/her pronouns during the later years of her life.

However, I did that because I was referring to the d’Éon in the game, who is portrayed as a man, not to the real chevaliére. Hopefully that clarifies things.

[queerasfact]

Happy birthday to 18th-century French spy and diplomat, the Chevalière d'Éon!

Check out our podcast on them if you want to learn about everything from their complicated relationship with gender to their determined efforts to discover just how much wine they could buy with government funds.

[Image: Portrait of d'Éon by Thomas Stewart (1792)]

[my-deer-history]

for the 'how many steps away is laurens' thing: chevaliere d'eon (she's one of my favourite people from the 18th century)

A fantastic one to start on - thanks, anon!

There is no record that Laurens and d'Eon ever met, which would have been the first prize - though they did both live in London at various points between 1772 and 1776, and it's very likely that Laurens would have at least heard of d'Eon.

But there's a direct connection - so, one step of separation - between them through the Comte de Vergennes, Louis XVI's foreign minister.

They may even have met Vergennes in the same place, his Versailles office - d'Eon in August 1777, when she was summoned and ordered to stop wearing her dragoon uniform, and Laurens during his 1780 voyage to secure financial aid from the French crown.

[dailyfatefigures]

Chevaliere d'Eon - 1/7 Scale by Odoru Umi Ryuutei

[hasxufudoneanythingwronginactive]

Day 725, Day 20 of Servant Summer Camp, Day 1 of Playable Xu Fu:

These titles are getting way too long but anyway--

--WE’RE IN BUSINESS NOW BABY! Look who arrived while I was summoning for Xu Fu coins!

They’ve given me exactly the power that was prophesied - The all-women team that Chevaliere d’Eon (and I’m sure Xu Fu) dreamed of...!!

[catsxratsxbats]

5 12 22

Tysm!! Music asks ~

5: song that needs to be played LOUD:

House of Wolves by My Chemical Romance !!

12: song from your preteen years:

Hard to choose one but Bring Me To Life by Evanescence 100%

22: song that moves you forward:

Oh definitely Call My Name by the Unlikely Candidates

[marzipanandminutiae]

stop misgendering the dead trans French spy/swordswoman

too many modern people: we don't know the Chevalier[sic] d'Eon's gender...what would THEY have ID'd as today...no way to tell...nonbinary icon...

The Chevaliere d'Eon: THE KING SAID I'M OFFICIALLY CIS AND HE PAID FOR MY NEW DRESSES. BECAUSE I MADE HIM. AND HERE IS MY AUTOBIOGRAPHY, WRITTEN BY ME, MADEMOISELLE D'EON

[howlingday]

RU-JA-GUN-CON

Video Games:

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- Final Fantasy: Gunblade /

- Halo: BR55 / ARC-920 / M6 / Carolina /

- Mass Effect: Thresher Maws / M-920 Cain / Phaeston / Blood Pack Punisher / Pistol Set / Hahne-Kedar /

- Devil May Cry: Blue Rose /Blue Rose II / Red Queen / Chevaliere / Ebony & Ivory / Yamato / Nevan / Balrog /

- Destiny: Red Death / Thorn / A Single Clap / The Dead Man's Tale /

- Warframe: The Phage /

- Borderlands: Tactical Shotgun 1340 / Morningstar /

- Doom: Super Shotgun /

- Battlefield: Chompi /

- Team Fortress 2: The Ambassador /Demoman /

- Call of Duty: 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 / FN SCAR H 7.62X51MM Assault Rifle /

- Xenoblade: Pyra & KOS-MOS / KOS-MOS / T-Elos / Nia & Dromach / Dahlia / Floren / Siren /

- Cyberpunk: Mantis Blade / Skippy / Skippy / Malorian Arms 3516 / DB-2 Satara / Breakthrough /Guts / Erebus / Erebus II /

- Rage: Firestorm /

- Far Cry: Sawblade Launcher /

- The Legend of Zelda: The Master Sword /

- Honkai Impact: The Judgement of Shamash /

- Infinity Ops: Requiem / Requiem /

- Megaman X: Buster / Biometal Model P /

- Titanfall: MK6 /

- Monster Hunter: Gunlance /

- Metroid: Power Suit /

- Disco Elysium: The Expression /

- Dead Space: Hand Cannon /

- Pokémon: Pecharunt /

[amphibious-thing]

Like I'm sorry but where is my d'Eon movie!

Spy thriller ✓

Trans and asexual main character ✓

Costume drama with beautiful Rose Bertin inspired dresses ✓

Sword fights ✓

[meltysblood]

i was tagged by @komadea eeeeeee tysm!<3

rules: tag 10 people you want to know better!

relationship status: single uwu;

favorite color: pink that's just how it is w he/him pronouns in my bio

song stuck in my head: jenny by studio killers

last song listened to: WIDE OPEN by tobi lou

3 favorite foods: any sort of meat tho chicken is on the bottom of the tier, beef stew, curry

last thing i googled: senyuu ehe

dream trip: japan w my dream s/o

anything i want right now: a butch weeb girlfriend who will hold me while i play horror VNs

tagging @rorronoa, @guccimedusa, @chevalieres,@amyhog,@netflixus,@limonells,@dwn024,@orbees,@wallito,@dolciume, @cidnangarlond tho no pressure to do it ♡ ～('▽^人)

[vincentpriceofficial]

I’m trying to read a book about chevaliere d’eon and the information itself is very interesting but at the same time I can feel my life force being drained by putting up with the author’s total dismissal of the very concept she could have been trans with the logic “being trans is something you’re born with and have no choice about and d’eon CHOSE to transition” lmao

[froshele]

something so dumb and rage inducing about the fact that when someone asked Campbell if women also had hero's journeys he sort of blanked and then went "um.. women.. do anything ever? news to me"

and then the diagram that we came up with was, like, this, which is i guess a workable diagram of a specific class, nationality and race of women's gender identity development but as a parallel for the heroic journey as it actually appears in culture and resonates at least a bit more universally it is hot nonsense that looks designed to usher girlies back into the kitchen by pretending resignation is maturity or whatever

identification with what masculine? How exactly is this defined and universalized? who does that apply to in any actual narrative except for the Mulan style of chevaliere-crossdresser? And even for that character type her ending is either "the prince celebrates her identification as an axis of relation to him" or "no one ever finds out and she retires in peace because this was a purely utilitarian thing" or "they find out and kill her" or for goodness' sake "he magically gets turned into a proper young lad by an act of heaven and either has a wife and kids just like his new best friend or serves him forever"

This is just a lot of nonsense about how girls spiritually need to conform to arbitrary silliness about gender essentialism and can't win anything without help, and besides not actually being the blueprint of any traditional narratives about women doing anything it is also just silly

I have nothing to counterpropose because I kind of don't believe in Campbell generally and don't think this is a productive ground for new ideas about much of anything for me personally (being outside my context and all) but come on internet we can do better

[hartshorn-and-isinglass]

Uh oh.

PBS Origins is going to do a show on Chevaliere d'Eon and they're already using they/them for her.

I really feel like this is not rocket science... why are we failing so hard at this.