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The digital edition of all books may be viewed on our website before purchase. Excerpt from The Courtships of Catherine the Great (Classic Reprint)
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Présentation de l'éditeur
In a volume published nine years ago on Catherine II. of Russia and her attitude towards the French Revolution, the French writer, M. C. de Lariviere, classes Frederick of Prussia, Maria Theresa, and Catherine the Great with King Voltaire as the real masters of theE ighteenth Century. There is a justice in this verdict which makes it no matter for surprise that, while interest is still taken in what Mr Havelock Ellis calls the most human century, books should continue to be written about any of the four. And of them all certainly Catherine is the most fascinating character. French writers may claim to have done their duty by her nobly, but, strange to say, she has been much neglected in England. The following book is only an attempt to look at some of the aspects of Catherine, with no thought of competing with the great pioneering work which has been done elsewhere, notably by M. Waliszewski.
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