"In addition to singing her praises among his circles of friends, Voltaire wrote pamphlets that supported Catherine's policies and had her pronouncements and letters published in the western press, particularly targeting anti-Russian publications such as the "Gazette de France", the "Gazette de Cologne", and the "Courrier d'Avignon".Voltaire even succeeded in convincing the French historian Claude-Carloman de Rulhière not to publish his "Histoire ou anecdotes sur la révolution de Russie en l'année 1762", which provided a disparaging account of Catherine's rise to power.