Dancing to the Precipice: The Life of Lucie de la Tour Du Pin, Eyewitness to an Era

Title: Dancing to the Precipice: The Life of Lucie de la Tour Du Pin, Eyewitness to an Era
Author: Caroline Moorehead
ISBN: 9780061684418
Publisher: Harper
Published: 2009
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Edition: First Edition
Number of Pages: 496
Condition Note: Excellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.
Publisher Description:

"[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.