Quotes
• Ninon de l’Enclos, who was offered fifty thousand crowns by Cardinal Richelieu for one night in her company—money left in her will bought books for a nine-year-old boy called François-Marie Arouet, better known as Voltaire;
Lola Montez, a fake Spanish dancer who caused a revolution;
Grigory Orlov, who helped to end the reign of Catherine’s husband, Peter III, which resulted in Catherine becoming empress;
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