Dancing to the Precipice: The Life of Lucie de la Tour Du Pin, Eyewitness to an Era
Caroline Moorehead$14.44
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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.
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: 07/27/2010
ISBN: 9780061684425
Pages: 512
Weight: 1.18lbs
Size: 8.98h x 6.04w x 0.89d