Love Intrigues of Royal Courts (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Love Intrigues of Royal Courts Catherine, the Second, of Russia, one of the most splendid and the most inscrutable of all the great figures of the eighteenth century, had, says Masson, two passions which only died with her her love of man, which degenerated into libertinage, and her love of glory, which degenerated into vanity. For forty years, from the time when she blossomed into the ripe beauty of young womanhood, to the verge of the grave, this remarkable and complex woman had an unbroken series of favourites, on whom in turn she lavished affection, wealth and power, and whom she changed as capriciously and lightly as she changed her gowns. Probably no woman who has ever lived has exhibited such a wide range of inconsistent characteristics. Voltaire, one of her most abject slaves, proclaimed her the only great man in Europe, though Frederick is living. Her soul, he says, comprehends all things, her mind might serve to measure all capacities. She is the instructor of the philosophers, more learned than all the academies. She is an angel before whom all men should be silent, and where she is, there is Paradise. 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.
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