Catherine & Diderot
CATHERINE& DIDEROT CATHERINE & DIDEROT THE EMPRESS, THE PHILOSOPHER, AND THE FATE OF THE ENLIGHTENMENT Robert Zaretsky Cambridge, Massachusetts London, England 2019 Copyright © 2019 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College All rights reserved Printed in the United States of Amer i ca First printing Jacket design by Laura Shaw Design Jacket art: (front) Catherine the Great, 1763 (oil on canvas) by Fedor Stepanovich Rokotov (c. 1735–1808) / Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia / Bridgeman Images; (back) Portrait of Denis Diderot, 1767 (oil on canvas), by Louis Michel van Loo (1707–1771) / Louvre, Paris, France / Bridgeman Images 9780674240865 (EPUB) 9780674240872 (MOBI) 9780674237353 (PDF) The Library of Congress has cataloged the printed edition as follows: Names: Zaretsky, Robert, 1955– author. Title: Catherine & Diderot : the empress, the phi los o pher, and the fate of the Enlightenment / Robert Zaretsky. Other titles: Catherine and Diderot : the empress, the phi los o pher, and the fate of the Enlightenment Description: Cambridge, Mas sa chu setts : Harvard University Press, 2019. | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2018034816 | ISBN 9780674737907 (alk. paper) Subjects: LCSH: Catherine II, Empress of Rus sia, 1729–1796. | Diderot, Denis, 1713–1784. | Enlightenment— Russia— History. Classification: LCC B4215.E5 Z37 2019 | DDC 194— dc23 LC rec ord available at https:// lccn . loc . gov / 2018034816 Frontispiece: Illustration by A. de Neuville, from François Guizot, A Popu lar History of France, from the Earliest Times, trans. Robert Black, vol. 6 (Boston: Dana Estes and Charles E. Lauriat, ca. 1883), p. 321. Photo by Culture Club/Getty Images. To Julie, with all my love and gratitude Contents PROLOGUE 1 1.
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