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Excerpt from The Romance of an Empress: Catherine II, of Russia It may be as well to state that the original book is not written in Parisian French; it has the colloquialisms of a foreign… Plus…

Excerpt from The Romance of an Empress: Catherine II, of Russia It may be as well to state that the original book is not written in Parisian French; it has the colloquialisms of a foreigner, wishing to´ be more native than the natives. The translator has not attempted to remove, or even to atten uate, this Russian accent, so to speak. He has endeavoured merely to make his rendering as close as possible to the original. 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. Excerpt from The Romance of an Empress: Catherine II, of Russia It may be as well to state that the original book is not written in Parisian French; it has the colloquialisms of a foreigner, wishing to´ be more native than the natives. The translator has not attempted to remove, or even to atten uate, this Russian accent, so to speak. He has endeavoured merely to make his rendering as close as possible to the original. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare Buch > Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst & Musik > Geschichte, Forgotten Books<

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