Monsieur d’Éon Is a Woman tells the story of a remarkable gender-bending life

There's spycraft, treason, exile, and insolence—and it's raucous, cheerful fun. Charles-Geneviève-Louis-Auguste-André-Timothée d'Éon de Beaumont lived a revolutionary life in revolutionary times. He began his singular career under Louis XV as both secretary to the Russian ambassador and undercover spy.…