François Timoléon, abbé de Choisy (French: [ʃwazi]; 16 August 1644 – 2 October 1724) was a French cross-dresser, abbé, and author. He wrote numerous works...

time has arrived. The 17th-century French cleric and memoirist François-Timoléon de Choisy is supposed to have been kept in dresses until he was eighteen...

François-Timoléon de Choisy (1644–1724), French author Jacques Denys Choisy (1799–1859), Swiss botanist whose standard author abbreviation is Choisy Auguste...

Tadpoles; an earlier nickname was griffins. The French author François-Timoléon de Choisy crossed the equator in April 1685 (aboard the Oiseau bound for...

management system constituted a formal palace economy, the French François-Timoléon de Choisy, who came to Ayutthaya in 1685, wrote, "the king has absolute...

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Portzic, at pointe des Espagnols, etc. On 3 March 1685, the author François-Timoléon de Choisy paused at Roche Mengant (a rock in the middle of the entry into...

north of Piketberg is named after Lostal. de Saint-Martin met the French author François-Timoléon de Choisy at the Castle of Good Hope on 5 June 1685...

return of the 1685 French embassy to Siam of Chevalier de Chaumont and François-Timoléon de Choisy on two French ships. The embassy was bringing a proposal...

Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée, French painter (d. 1805) October 2 – François-Timoléon de Choisy, French writer (b. 1644) Portals: France History Lists "BBC -...

effeminate set that included the famous cross-dresser Abbé François-Timoléon de Choisy. In February 1683, to the surprise of his family, the 19-year-old...

August 6 – Louise de la Vallière, French royal mistress, subject of a Dumas novel (died 1710) October 2 – François-Timoléon de Choisy, French memoirist...

led in 1691–1692 by François-Timoléon de Choisy whose members included such luminaries as François Lefebvre de Caumartin, Louis de Courcillon, Louis Cousin...

return of the 1685 French embassy to Siam of Chevalier de Chaumont and François-Timoléon de Choisy, Pan was selected by Constantine Phaulkon, the Prime...

– Anne Jules de Noailles, French general (b. 1650) 1709 – Ivan Mazepa, Ukrainian diplomat (b. 1639) 1724 – François-Timoléon de Choisy, French historian...

Louis I of Spain (b. 1707) October 2 – François-Timoléon de Choisy, French writer (b. 1644) October 18 – Jean de Hautefeuille, French cleric, scientist...

moats The most well-known of the family is Francois-Timoléon (1644-1724), 4th and last son of Jean III de Choisy, travestied by his mother when young — until...

France-Thailand relations Constantine Phaulkon Claude de Forbin François-Timoléon de Choisy "History of Ayutthaya – Historical Events – Timeline 1650–1699"...

dignitaries, who attended the event through royal invitation was François-Timoléon de Choisy. He wrote in his diary that the king had arranged a special round-up...

important announcements needed to be made. The French author François-Timoléon de Choisy was part of a party who resupplied at the fort in June 1685 on...

with Saint-Benoît-du-Sault: Hervé Faye (1814–1902), astronomer François-Timoléon de Choisy (1644–1724), priest and author Herbert Southworth (1908–1999)...

who attended it while a child and found it verging on cult. François-Timoléon de Choisy similarly mocked the elevation of Louis to godlike status as...

Jean de Fontaney, on a first French embassy to Siam led by Chevalier de Chaumont and François-Timoléon de Choisy, and accompanied by Claude de Forbin...

Jan Baptista van Helmont, Thomas Urquhart, Jeffery Hudson, François-Timoléon de Choisy, Duke Mazarin, Bartholomew Roberts, Bampfylde Moore Carew, Edward...

acceptance speech, and that he received into the Academy François-Timoléon de Choisy and François Fénelon. The Abbé d'Olivet remarked "Nobody knows how he...

1 – Jean Rousseau, French viol player (d. 1699) October 2 – François-Timoléon de Choisy, French abbé, author and cross-dresser (d. 1724) October 3 –...

England. June 16 – A lunar eclipse is observed in the evening by François-Timoléon de Choisy, amongst others, onboard his ship in the vicinity of Madagascar...

Alessandro Stradella, Italian composer (d. 1682) October 2 – François-Timoléon de Choisy, French author (d. 1724) Portals: France History Lists "BBC -...

critic, poet and historian François de Beauvilliers, 1st duc de Saint-Aignan, 1663–1687, soldier François-Timoléon de Choisy, 1687–1724, ecclesiastic Antoine...

are noteworthy: François Timoléon de Choisy, Histoire de l'Église (11 vols., Paris, 1706–23); Bonaventure Racine (Jansenist), Abrégé de l'histoire ecclesiastique...