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Hardcover Catherine & Diderot: The Empress, the Philosopher, and the Fate of the Enlightenment Book

ISBN: 0674737903

ISBN13: 9780674737907

Catherine & Diderot: The Empress, the Philosopher, and the Fate of the Enlightenment

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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...

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