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Catherine & Diderot

Hardcover • 2019 • 1. edition

Catherine & Diderot

By Robert Zaretsky

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About the book

A dual biography crafted around the famous encounter between the French philosopher who wrote about power and the Russian empress who wielded it with great aplomb.In October 1773, after a grueling trek from Paris, the aged and ailing Denis Diderot stumbled from a carriage in wintery St. Petersburg. The century's most subversive thinker, Diderot arrived as the guest of its most ambitious and admired ruler, Empress Catherine of Russia. What followed was unprecedented: more than forty private meeti...Show more

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ISBN

9780674737907

Publisher

Harvard University Press

Published year

2019

Language

Edition

1

Original title

Catherine & Diderot

Format

Hardcover

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