CATHERINE II EMPRESS OF RUSSIA Autograph Note unsigned to an

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CATHERINE THE GREAT CATHERINE II, EMPRESS OF RUSSIA. Autograph Note, unsigned, to an unnamed recipient (lacking salutation), in French, explaining why it is difficult to translate an unnamed comedy. 1/2 page, 4to; folds. Np, nd

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"It is a difficult task to translate this comedy[.] [I]t is written very simply for the language[,] but the allusions are extremely subtle and almost continual[.] [M]ost of them take aim at the national mores, customs or characters present or past; and the author[,] really letting the tongue go[,] has often used such subtleties of thought and irony that it is difficult to render in another language."