Caroline Moorehead, "Dancing to the Precipice: The Life of Lucie de la Tour du Pin, Eyewitness to an Era"
English | 2010 | ISBN: 0061684422 | EPUB | pages: 512 | 0.9 mb
English | 2010 | ISBN: 0061684422 | EPUB | pages: 512 | 0.9 mb
“[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.