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- 01D'Éon negotiated secretly with Empress Elizabeth of Russia on behalf of Louis XV, disguised as a woman at the Russian court.
- 02In 1777, Louis XVI issued a formal royal order requiring d'Éon to live permanently as a woman.
- 03London gamblers wagered £120,000 on d'Éon's birth sex — a legal dispute that outlasted her diplomatic career.