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

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

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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.

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Caroline Moorehead