Catherine the Great and Important Quote

[Joshua Adetunji]

Hello Seelangers,

I remember some years ago during my romance with the history of  
Tsarist Russia, i ran into something about Emperess Catherine the  
Great and Voltaire, the French philosophe.Unfortunately i have been  
looking for the source and the exact quote, but to no avail.Here is  
how it looks like :Catherine the Great, in a correspondence, said to  
the French philosophe :

    " I am a philosopher.You are a philosopher.
      I write on skin.You write on paper"

Please, does anyone know a bibliographic source for this ?

Thank you


Joshua Adetunji
Modern Languages and Cultural Studies
University of Alberta



















Quoting Anne Fisher <aof at UMICH.EDU>:

> hello seelangers,
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> I have a student who wants to study abroad next year in Russia, but to
> stay on track for graduation he needs to take a physics class along
> with the regular assortment of Russian language, literature, and
> culture classes.
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> has anyone else had their students take science/math courses abroad?
> did it work?
>
> and, does anyone have any suggestions where I could send this student?
>
> thank you,
>
> annie
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