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From: [personal profile] selenak
There needs to be, but if there is a good one, I haven't read it yet. The Catherine biographies I read for Yuletide last year never rose above avarage. That said, I haven't read the Robert Massie one, which is supposed to be good, and also I seem to recall Simon Montefiore wrote one specifically about her and Potemkin which also got good reviews.

Re: biographies romancées, I can only repeat my reccommendation for Zweig's Fouché.
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Have downloaded the two Catherine Kindle samples and will check them out, thank you!

Fouché: I've had the Kindle sample since you recommended it, but the thing is...German is enough of a struggle for me still, that I have to be excited enough about the content to keep picking up the book and repeatedly engaging in the struggle, hour after hour, day after day. If you can get me excited to learn more about Fouché, I'll give the book a try! But right now I have no feelings about him either way, and Wikipedia is not exactly helping.

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