Abstract
Georges Dulac and Ludmilla Evdokimova : Literature and politics. D. A. Golitsyn's correspondence (1760-1784). D. A. Golitsyn, the Russian minister in Paris and then in The Hague and a friend of the philosophes, in particular Diderot, wrote to his relative the Vice-Chancellor A. M. Golitsyn a large, theoretically diplomatic but also partly private correspondence. It shows how he used his relations in the publishing world to further Catherine II's plans. But certain positions defended by the Prince go against royal policies ; he is suspicious of the alliance with Frederick II, favours friendship with France and above all insists that the Empress should gradually prepare the abolition of serfdom, which he considers a prerequisite for Russian economic and cultural development. Two letters are published here : one (7.1.72) concerns the publication of Helvétius's De l'Homme, and the other (27.2.72) reproduces a diatribe from an anonymous Paris correspondent whose views on the situation in France under the Triumvirate are very close to those of Diderot.
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