Tired of d’Eon’s eccentricities, weary of his attacks on Beaumarchais,
and informed, moreover, that he had laid aside his female clothes, the
ministers took strong measures.
On Saturday, March 20, at an early hour and without any warning,
Mademoiselle d’Eon was arrested at her house in the Rue de Noailles,
by two officers of police, and invited to enter a coach, which started
off at once. While the Sieur Clos, equerry and counsellor of the King,
assisted by his clerk, searched his house in vain, d’Eon was being
driven, by easy stages, towards Dijon Castle, where, by a royal decree,
he remained for a whole month.
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