"This is what made the Chevalier d'Eon a "fitting figure to cast as protagonist" because he [sic] (see main page for discussion of the gender and pronouns of the historical figure, Chevalier d'Eon) embodied all of the contradictions of that time period, which Ubukata lists as "Wealth and poverty, faith and heresy, diplomacy and conspiracy, king and commoner, even the devastation of war and the flowering of culture.