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Lettres de Grimm a L’Impératrice Catherine II (Letters from Grimm to Empress Catherine II) is a compilation of letters written over a 26-year period by Friedrich Melchior, Baron von Grimm (1723‒1807) to Catherine the Great, who ruled from 1762 until her death in 1796. The first letter is dated January 26, 1764, the last December 20 (December 31 by the Gregorian calendar), 1790. Grimm was a German scholar, writer, and diplomat who settled in France. He was well known at the courts of Europe, and through him Catherine ...