CHAPTER XVI

DIPLOMATIC, SOCIAL, CHURCH SPIES 255

No Sex Mystery about D'Eon—The Chevalier's Great Courage—His Trip to Russia in Woman's Dress—Empress rewards him—Spies for Louis XV.—Proves an Apt Soldier—Minister in London—Is removed and recalled—Receives Fat Pension—His Return to France—Resumes Female Attire—Disappoints the Curious—Death in 1810—Comte d'Antraigues—Napoleon's Opinion of—His Real Importance—Murdered in London—Diplomatic Secrets rarely divulged—Popular Misconceptions of Diplomatic Spies—Napoleon's _Cabinet Noir_—Prussian Spies at every Court—The "Posen" Case—Social Spies ubiquitous—The Lower Types—The Tausch Bureau—London's Peer Spy—A Self-constituted Social Cerberus—His Courage in Action—Rise and Fall of the "Prince"—Sainfoin's Derby—The Meyerling Tragedy—Church Espionage—The Spanish Inquisition—Its Terrors and Tortures—Congregational and School Spies