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Fencing match between Mademoiselle la Chevaliere dEon de Beaumont and Monsieur de Saint George, at Carlton House, 1787. Famous fencing bout between transgender spy Chevalier dEon and the black Mozart, Joseph Bologne, mixed race son of a planter and an enslaved woman. Print after an engraving by Victor Marie Picot from an illustration by Charles Jean Robineau in Ralph Nevills Old Sporting Prints, The Connoisseur Magazine, London, 1908.