Le secret du Chevalier d'Éon (1959)
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Andrée Debar, Isa Miranda, Gabriele Ferzetti, Bernard Blier, Jean Desailly
A young woman raised as a man becomes a skilled swordswoman and is sent on a secret diplomatic mission for Louis XV.
The story
To secure his elderly uncle’s inheritance, Charles d’Éon’s father passes off his seventh daughter as a son. Raised as a boy by her great-uncle, she grows into a handsome young adult skilled with a sword and as a horseman, and enlists in a regiment of dragoons. She meets the Countess of Monval, a secret agent for King Louis XV, who introduces her to the king. He sends her to Empress Elizabeth on a mission to break up the alliance between Prussia and Russia.
Full plot (contains spoilers)
To keep his elderly uncle’s inheritance, Charles d’Éon’s father is forced to pass off his seventh daughter as a son. She is therefore raised as a boy by her great-uncle. Having grown into a handsome young man, skilled with a sword and as a horseman, she enlists in a regiment of dragoons. She then meets the Countess of Monval, a secret agent of King Louis XV. The countess introduces her to the king, who sends her on a mission to Empress Elizabeth to break up the alliance between Prussia and Russia. With the help of Bernard de Turquet, whom she has always loved and who has discovered her secret, she returns triumphant but jealous, after Bernard has taken her place and spent a night of passion with the empress, who had a weakness for this mysterious knight.
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