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felt July, 113C,Q, •;*hich. herself—..
your dear dau;;hrer; t-he Oheyahere D'Eon.' -
I.‘ In 1802, I hadpc•,isitiyt to recall 'tny,selfro her
l'ecollei;_qiim. She w-i'ot'a lung letter tome,. dated
24thkruly, in W hicir'slie gave Me an account of se-
veto I: psi trars, and sp*e of some rersons of ,our
aq'Ruainiatiee: Sltesiiid to'That §hedid,-not -
set out in February; betntise site had failen sick, and
had no! front that linie left :1116. houSe,.her diartiber,
or-her bed.' She co.itinties-t`. You knoitv.dvell Otat
I am not an emigrant, inasmuch as Lhavebeen in
Ihis country .sinci 17 011, account of my grand
law'-gun a;.tainA the 'felt of • the late 'Lord Admiral
Ferret's; 'and that law-suit is not'.)et terminated.
have since 1792, my passpottscfrom the
French at public, authorizing me to ,return to
France : bUt in order tri have nothing to reproach
myself with, I intend to return before the Ist Ven-
detpaire, year
.1 1, ip order to conform to.the
cree of our hero, Buonaparte, be:saviDucol France:
and DI Europe. At present, my cares are devoted
kiroget her to my health;.'anct to the colleEtion of a
little money, to return ip,t ance. It is easier for'
me to recover my health,. than to obtain
:ail. the
money t:ue to me on account of my pension of
2,ooo;livresi which I'have not touched since 179 i.
beseeCh you to tell- your very dearand amiable'
weer., that ..t.\.ladetnoliff lie D'Eon now blesses the Prp-
“(ience that, in 1777, oliliged her to resume her
first robe of him:teepee, Scc. I i'm, .for lite and
tor death,. your devoted servant,' Geneviete P'Eoty.'
" From ••this time. forth, I received no account of
her, direttly nor indirectly. The fragments of this
letter, which I. lay before your eyes, prove, as I
base- stated to you, .the falsehood of the statements•
contained_ ih the article alluded ;to. You will Ph-
serve by 'it, first, that the Chevalier did. not live un-'
known' at Tormetre till t inasmuch as she was
rn London since 1785; that it is riot true- that she .
offered- her services to the convent?u,!, inasmuch:as/
it was in 17,y2' that she.' corresponded :vith the /Na-
tional Assemble ; that she' received passports froot
that ,Assembly,' and took passports horn toelrigh•fi
Government, is precisely the ,eottwayof
w hat the articles s.iy s, t bat, she cut -to England
about 'that awe,' tor at that time silt.' was te.iety to
depart flow it.
"• The pretended .judgment of the Court of
King's Bench, and the alleged order of the. French
UTOt. ernineni , which cit.P.e.l' her to -belong-to the.:
femin,ne'sex;. are not inoi-e neither the oi
or the other. • Thete were certainly wagers among
the English, who are, as every one knows, great,
waget-inikers, op the subjed.of her sex, during
the time when she lived among
.them, under the
name and. habit of-the Chevalier D'liqn, but the •
itir,•;ment of the Court declared the w agers void, as
being contra bonos.mores, and dedied nothing upon
her sex. -..'l.remeniber that the who 'had
at the same time a qu trrel Nigh. the Sieur Caton De
peautnarchals, and caused:zi pamphlet to be:printed
on the occasion,. returned thanks to. the English
Jirdge Er the manner in which he'expressed hiS.
sentiments, • .

. " As to the'supposed order of the Frehch
vernment, to .orceirer to diess.hers.2lf as a woman,
thot,gly she .was -a common E6Use ad-
mit of ,it ? From What motive so,absurd, •wirea-
sonabie, and immoral could such.an
mated ? Btir, above elfs I,upposnig t! e citevuliere
to be Clievalier.D'Eon„ how is it 'possible to suppose
he could have so base and.spirit less a heir; as to
iuit,to.that order, -and sharnetUlly to -wear the dress'
of avk °Man. Tnele have Leen instances of vi o-
men who felt' theinseives possessed of sutlic,tent
courage 'to support the .chinauters of rh6n, and to
dri.s's 'themselves as. men ; but the masquerade of
men , assuming, the, characters of women, without,
some tincture of madness, in the -ca4l, are very me
Inds-ed. Apd it would not, perhaps; be et,y to
find a single parallrl for that of the Abbe De..Choisy,
whose scandalous hisugy we hate under the t.tle of
The.; Countess Des Bar res,' who passed the first
)ears of his uniinhood: the dress of a wouian, iu
order to satiSfy a
.dikrosition (or lit.eitinism.
But. Mademoiselle. returniug, resuming
her female -habits, after she had passed._ her 48.1 i
year, has 'nothing in, 'common wi.h such a- prece7,
dent. - Besides, her morals were always pure and
innocent; and the most inveterate of her enemies,
when compelled to do her justice, On this head,
ne-
ver spoke• of her otherwise than, in term's of re-•
sped. What plausible motive c..m there be 'con,-
.ceived to give a colour for this vile masquerade ?.
The will -of the-French Ministry! BUL.for a long
time previous there was 'lto Ministry, no• Ministers
who would have the least interest in the disgilisse.
Her pension ? She no longer' received it, as is
seen by her letrer ; and moreover, would this pen-
sion nave• obliged 'her to u4e fiction, even with her
_mother) And is it to be-supposed, that in writing
to her, mother, she .would signed your dear
,duugli-•
ter, if she had 'been a Male ? For surely it
not be disputed. that the mother must limit: known
something of the ilia, .;
" Inch.;ed, it appears to me ithpossihle, that. the
article alluded to has been drawn up in London,
such as it appeats in theP,zris Papers for it is utipos7
sible•the Londoners could forget, that. in 1787 she
-had a fencing match ((lima d' tames) i 4 that \city,
with Sr. Georg-e, in the presence of the Princes,
which was the subject of a painting, engraving
made front which .is every' diy. presented toeur
eyes on the quays, and in the print-Shops every
where.

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In 1791, while I was with her, the proprietors
Of Vauxhall gave her a benefit, which was-placarded
at all the 'corners of the streets. What ! was she'
then obscurely vegetating at Tonnerre ? Is it to be
conceived, that in a city like. London,,-not one will
recollect events of so a nature ? There, is
not a thing in that atticle which is not-au inshit to
truth, Without excepting even the "age allotted to
her. Her death is stated to have taken place the
21st May, 181 V, at the 'age of ID years;but she
was born at Tonberre the sth Octoer, 1728, and
must therefore be 82 years old, instead of 79:
From all-thisit is to be concluded, that the ar-
ticle is but a story"inserted in-a .lornal to fill a
column or that, it it has any foundation, it the
pretended examination of the body has taken place,
it must have been some adventurer, who made use,

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