Dancing to the Precipice: The Life of Lucie de la Tour Du Pin,
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"[A] remarkable biography....Moorehead deftly wields periods detail...to tell the story of a captivating woman who kept her sense of self amid the vicissitudes of politics." -- Vogue From acclaimed biographer Caroline Moorhead comes Dancing to the Precipice, a sweeping chronicle of the remarkable life of Lucie de la Tour du Pin--"an astute, thoroughly engaging biography of a formidable woman" ( Boston Globe ) who, over the span of some 80 years, was witness to, and often a participant in the major social upheavals of eighteenth-century French history.
Author: Caroline Moorehead
Format: Hardback, 496 pages, 152mm x 229mm, 626 g
Published: 2009, HarperCollins Publishers Inc, United States
Genre: Biography: General
"[A] remarkable biography....Moorehead deftly wields periods detail...to tell the story of a captivating woman who kept her sense of self amid the vicissitudes of politics." -- Vogue From acclaimed biographer Caroline Moorhead comes Dancing to the Precipice, a sweeping chronicle of the remarkable life of Lucie de la Tour du Pin--"an astute, thoroughly engaging biography of a formidable woman" ( Boston Globe ) who, over the span of some 80 years, was witness to, and often a participant in the major social upheavals of eighteenth-century French history.