The Courtships of Catherine the Great (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Courtships of Catherine the Great 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 the Eighteenth 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. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.