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Diplomatic niceties

March 13, 2009 by Paul Levy Leave a Comment

Charles-Geneviève-Louis-Auguste-André-Timothée d'Éon de Beaumont (1728-1810), le Chevalier d'Éon, was a career diplomat, in addition to being a part-time soldier and an amateur spy. But it was only the last of these that attracted the difficult-to-categorise Canadian art/performance producer Robert Lepage. For d'Éon, says the programme for the performance called "Eonnagata" (at … [Read more...]

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