The Chevalière d'Éon: Part 1

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🗓️ 15 September 2019

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Today's episode is the first part of our discussion on the 18th century French spy the Chevalière d'Éon. Join us as we discuss their complicated relationship with gender, how not to invade England, and the absolute limit of how much wine the French government will pay for. If you enjoy this episode, consider supporting us on Patreon, checking out our merch, and following us on Twitter, Tumblr and Facebook.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Queer's Fact, the podcast bringing you queer history from around the world
0:04.3	and throughout time. My name is Eli. I'm Alice. I'm Jason. And today we're talking about the 18th century
0:09.9	spy, the Chevalier Dien. Before we get started, we have some content warnings for this episode.
0:24.2	There's actually not a wild amount of stuff.
0:27.2	That's not what I expected.
0:28.8	Yeah, me too.
0:29.9	Me too.
0:30.7	There may be more stuff next time.
0:33.9	I think I know some of the things that will come up next time.
0:37.4	Yeah. For this one, though, there are some brief mentions of kidnapping and... I think I know some of the things that will come up next time.
0:37.8	Yeah.
0:42.4	For this one, though, there are some brief mentions of kidnapping and attempted murder,
0:44.0	but like super brief.
0:44.5	Okay.
0:53.6	And there is also general, periodical, misogyny and transphobia and trans misogyny.
0:55.1	But that's really it.
0:56.5	That's all I have for this episode.
0:59.8	So if any of that still sounds like something that you don't want to listen to,
1:03.8	feel free to skip this one and listen to any of our other episodes instead.
1:10.2	Now, to start this episode off, we're going to do something a little bit unusual and summarize the entire episode at the start.
1:13.4	Okay.
1:14.2	So if you would like to not listen to this episode, just turn it off in a minute.
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